[sdiy] prophet 2000 disk image anyone?

[Steve Lenham]

On 18/04/2013 03:22, Bob Weigel wrote:
> I'm trying to test a disk drive before I send it to make sure it really
> works in a P2000. I have one here that had a bad disk I think.  I got
> some kind of floppy I thought that had a disk image on it for it.  It
> says 'nd both with original and with the Teac drive I bought for it AND
> the one I know is good I took out of DSS-1 I upgraded.
>
> The jumpers are set different though.  Has anyone been down either the
> road of setting jumpers for that machine or does anyone have a disk
> image file they can send for P2000?
>

Hi Bob,

The P2000 is hard-wired to use the Drive Select 0 signal (DS0 - pin 10 
on the ribbon) to enable the floppy drive, but many drives come 
preconfigured to use Drive Select 1 (DS1 - pin 12). You need to check 
and, if necessary, swap over the select line - it might be a movable 
jumper or a solder link.

Certainly all the drives in the common Teac FD235 series appear to use 
DS1 as the factory default. I suspect this may have got a lot of drives 
written off as incompatible with the P2000! I successfully used an 
FD235HF-A291 mechanism in a P2000 once the solder jumper had been 
reconfigured.

Hope this helps!

Steve L.

Steve Lenham
Benden Sound Technology
www.bendensound.co.uk