Tandon TM-100-1 electronics repair
Chuck Guzis
cclist at sydex.com
Fri Apr 28 00:49:28 CDT 2017
> On Thu, 27 Apr 2017, Ethan Dicks via cctalk wrote:
>
>> Additionally, for a testing framework to poke signals through the
>> drive for debugging during the repair, what's a good platform? A
>> PC running MS-DOS? The TRS-80 Model 4 itself? Besides doing
>> directories, are there any good bits of software anyone can
>> recommend for exercising floppy drives on a sub-system-by-subsystem
>> basis? (move the heads, do a read, do a write...)
I'd still recommend Dave Dunfield's ImageDisk--it's got several good
functions--test RPM, Clean heads, check alignment, etc.
Runs on MS-DOS and, AFAIK, even on the 5150.
I'm actually a bit surprised that nobody's done a floppy exerciser for
the lowly Arduino. Easy enough--if you use the timer "capture" feature
on the AVR, you can even do simple disk read testing.
--Chuck
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