Activity
From 06/14/2018 to 07/13/2018
07/12/2018
- FO 09:17 PM Developer: RE: SD Card
- How did you get on with these?
- FO 09:17 PM Developer: RE: Built in sio2usb?
- When you connect it to your pc does it find a new serial device? In device manager you can see which com port it assigned, it might not be 1.
- Can someone show how to get this going? I downloaded Respeqt but am not getting anywhere. Comport is set at 1 and when i load an atr, nothing happens
06/29/2018
- FO 09:19 PM Developer: RE: Use a real floppy drive?
- It might be worth starting from a simple setup. i.e. test a drive by itself as D1 without the internal sdrive. Before heading towards the full on 'n' external drives in combination with sdrive.
06/28/2018
- 8B 10:50 PM Developer: RE: Use a real floppy drive?
- Been away, sorry. I plan on trying this weekend.
06/20/2018
- FO 12:23 PM Developer: RE: Use a real floppy drive?
- Did you get it working?
06/16/2018
- AL 03:47 PM Developer: RE: Use a real floppy drive?
- Things you can try besides swapping the SIO cable:
- Check/change the power supplies : 1050 9v AC 2-3A. Indus GT (DC?), Eclaire XL 5v dc 1-2A
- Check the ribbon cables to the SIO board; one of mine got stuck on a header during transp... - 8B 01:44 PM Developer: RE: Use a real floppy drive?
- I haven't gotten a chance to test on booting from one, but I have tested 3 1050 drives and a Indus GT drive. I was trying my XF551 that was working perfectly as well but for some reason won't power on now. I will do some more testing thi...
06/15/2018
- FO 09:35 PM Developer: RE: Use a real floppy drive?
- One thought, the default OS is high speed patched and perhaps that conflicts with your drives. You could try using the standard one too.
- FO 09:24 PM Developer: RE: Use a real floppy drive?
- Just been playing for 20 mins with aspeqt, my real 1050 and the internal drive.
Afraid I can't reproduce this. I suspect a bad SIO cable perhaps?
That said, what kind of drives are you using? I wonder if they are using different s... - FO 07:54 AM Developer: RE: Use a real floppy drive?
- If you take the disk out of sdrive 1 does it then work?
- I have tried formatting a floppy and copying a disk in 4 different physical drive. It keeps erroring error 173 on formatting. I am just using DOS 2.5 in drive assigned to 1 off the SD card and then assigned a physical drive to all other ...