[sdiy] K2000 floppy drives..

[jays at aracnet.com]

I'm really digging deep here. If I get it wrong maybe someone else can
comment.

Are you using a PC disc or an actual replacement floppy drive?

If memory serves most floppies have strapping/jumpers/traces on them to
make them either disc 1 or disc 2 via a select line. For PC floppies
they were usually configured as disc 2. The twist in the PCs floppy
cables would then handle the disc 1/disc 2 selection. So if a PC drive
is being used it could have the select configured wrong.

Good luck.
Jay S.


On Mon, 02 Apr 2012 17:14:18 -0600, Bob Weigel <sounddoctorin at imt.net>
wrote:
> I can't for the life of me find the information I once saw on K2000
> floppy drives.  I've swapped in several here..at first had the cable
> keyed backward and figured that out so the light isn't on all of the
> time... now it starts to format a disk but always says (having tried a
> couple new floppies and a few ones I pulled out of old
> systems..panasonic, teac, samsung and mitsumi) that it can't
> initialize the floppy.  I tried a few floppies that were in good
> shape.  Wonder if anyone else has run into this issue