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2007-03-19 by Heiko Mehring

Hello Brian,

thank you so much. That would be a great job. Maybe you have the 
possibility to make some pictures of the drive and the cable?! 
Please upload them to the Photos-section.

Thank you so much for your help.

Best regards
Heiko




--- In emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com, Brian Ronn <brian_ronn@...> 
wrote:
>
> Hi Heiko,
>    
>   I'll try to open up my EII and identify the floppy for you guys 
this weekend (I hope) ;-)
>    
>   I'll get back to you.
>    
>   Best regards
>    
>   Brian
> 
> Heiko Mehring <Mehrings@...> skrev:
>           Hi Brian,
> 
> it would be very nice, if you would have a look inside of your EII 
> for checking out which drive do you have. I know it`s hard and 
much 
> work what I want from you, but it would help me and maybe others 
> here very much. I`ve tried several drives, I`ve had - some of them 
> with the possibility of changing jumper-settings, but none of them 
> worked. 
> 
> Best regards
> Heiko
> 
> In emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com, Brian Ronn <brian_ronn@> 
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Heiko
> > 
> > I did this 3.5" drive modification around 5 years ago so don't 
> remember in detail.
> > 
> > I searched for drives with the posibilities of changing the 
> jumper settings for the ID 0 and 1.I collected around 10 different 
> 3.5" floppy drives from Fujitsu and HP computers (typically 66 to 
> 133Mhz type cpu computers) and tried each of them out. I jumpered 
> the drive either to 0 or 1 (don't remember), painted the front end 
> black and mounted the drive in the lower bay in a 3.5" to 5.25" 
> adapter frame. 
> > 
> > I had to find a power cable adapter to fit the new drive and as 
> I recall I had to find a data cable adapter too.
> > 
> > I¨m able to read and write banks to the 3.5" drive the same way 
> as I do with the 5.25" drive.
> > 
> > I think it all comes down to finding the right drive which 
> doesn't have to be the TEAC FD235HF-A529 as long as the floppy 
drive 
> ID can be changed. My EII is running on OS 2.6.
> > 
> > Feel free to ask any further questions and I try to answer :-)
> > 
> > Best regards
> > 
> > Brian
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Heiko Mehring <Mehrings@> skrev:
> > Hello Brian,
> > 
> > could you tell more about it? I would also like to get a working 
> > EII+ - 3,5"-diskdrive setup. I`ve tried to get the recommended 
> TEAC 
> > FD235HF-A529 drive, but without success. Please help me/us. 
> > Pleeeeaaaaaassseeeeeee. :-)
> > 
> > Best regards
> > Heiko
> > 
> > --- In emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com, Brian Ronn <brian_ronn@> 
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Heiko
> > > 
> > > I have a custom made 3.5" diskdrive at the lower bay in my EII.
> > > 
> > > Best regards
> > > 
> > > Brian
> > > Denmark
> > > 
> > > Heiko Mehring <Mehrings@> skrev:
> > > ... who has a build-in 3,5" diskdrive in his/her 
> > Emulator II? 
> > > 
> > > Best regards
> > > Heiko 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > ---------------------------------
> > > 
> > > Alt i én. Få Yahoo! Mail med adressekartotek, kalender og 
> > notesblok. 
> > > 
> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> > >
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ---------------------------------
> > 
> > Alt i én. Få Yahoo! Mail med adressekartotek, kalender og 
> notesblok. 
> > 
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> Alt i én. Få Yahoo! Mail med adressekartotek, kalender og 
notesblok. 
> 
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