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Woe is a floppy or four.. [message #380166] Sat, 26 January 2019 18:58 Go to next message
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Originally posted by: Anthony Adverse

Ok I have no idea whats happened here.... Yesterday I had 4x5.25" drives with 2x disk][ controllers that were all happy, and today I have nothing. No matter what combination I try of drives + controller they all sit there sucking their collective thumbs and won't boot.

It looks like a failure to read. The drives just sit there spinning. Just prior to complete failure I was doing a disk verify with copy ][+ it went from clean to every track and sector failure. I have also tried all this stuff in the GS with the same result.. I would've thought it was going to be CloneE if I didn't have the GS to try it in as well.

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Re: Woe is a floppy or four.. [message #380167 is a reply to message #380166] Sat, 26 January 2019 19:12 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Originally posted by: Anthony Adverse

Might be important. Yesterday FloppyEmu was reporting CLK0 problems on CloneE I didn't think anything of it, if I reset everything it went away.
Re: Woe is a floppy or four.. [message #380172 is a reply to message #380167] Sat, 26 January 2019 23:21 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Originally posted by: Anthony Adverse

I can actually still boot the floppy emu... makes me think theres something marginal in the signalling or power supply to the floppy drives...
Re: Woe is a floppy or four.. [message #380180 is a reply to message #380172] Sun, 27 January 2019 02:53 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Anthony Adverse <the.ertceps@gmail.com> wrote:

> I can actually still boot the floppy emu... makes me think theres
> something marginal in the signalling or power supply to the floppy drives...

I used to get symptoms of flickering screen during disk access, which
was down to the plug from the power supply to the motherboard needing
attention. I would disconnect the plug from time to time, and make sure
the conacts were clean by inserting it a few times. This would fix the
problem for the next year or so.

Of course, depending on how many drives you have, and how mnay cards are
in the slots, you may be on the edge of what your power supply can give
you...

Cheers - Ewen
Re: Woe is a floppy or four.. [message #380181 is a reply to message #380180] Sun, 27 January 2019 03:40 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Anonymous
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Originally posted by: Anthony Adverse

>> I can actually still boot the floppy emu... makes me think theres
>> something marginal in the signalling or power supply to the floppy drives...
>
> I used to get symptoms of flickering screen during disk access, which
> was down to the plug from the power supply to the motherboard needing
> attention. I would disconnect the plug from time to time, and make sure
> the conacts were clean by inserting it a few times. This would fix the
> problem for the next year or so.
>
> Of course, depending on how many drives you have, and how mnay cards are
> in the slots, you may be on the edge of what your power supply can give
> you...
>
> Cheers - Ewen

Even with everything out but the Ramworks and a drive controller, same result. I'll recheck that power line though, it is buried in a powerboard with a trillion other devices.

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Re: Woe is a floppy or four.. [message #380202 is a reply to message #380181] Sun, 27 January 2019 11:40 Go to previous message
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Originally posted by: Anthony Adverse

Thanks for your time. It turns out some dubious floppies gave CloneE a good set of filthy heads. Cleaning all round worked a treat. I guess in future I should limit unknown floppies to an un-cased drive, much easier to clean :)

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