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Re: Emulator II and HxC SD - recommissioning

2011-01-31 by esynthesist

For write support the SD HxC Rev C should be used.
But on the HxC forum there's a description of how to apply the hardware change to the Rev B boards.

///E-Synthesist

--- In emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com, "andrei.kudryavtsev" <andrei.kudryavtsev@...> wrote:
>
> Hi All, did you make a test on Rev C of floppy emu? I have Rev B and didn't perform the FW update yet.
> Does it mean that for write it uses SRAM add-on?
> thanks!
> --- In emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com, "esynthesist" <esynthesist@> wrote:
> >
> > Assuming that your upper drive is Drive 1 and the lower one is Drive 2:
> > - Drive 1 = floppy drive --> use the "untwisted connector" of the twisted cable.
> > - Drive 2 = SD HxC --> use the "twisted connector" of the twisted cable.
> > - Set the J3 jumper of the HxC to "ID2/DriveA" (see manual of HxC)
> > - Don't change any jumper on the floppy drive, but make sure you use the floppy drive which was on Drive 1 originally. 
> > 
> > If the orginal Drive 1 floppy drive is broken, and you want to use the other one now as Drive 1, you'll have to change a jumper on the drive, unless you use the HxC as Drive 1 and the floppy drive as Drive 2. In the latter case the configuration will be:
> > - Drive 1 = SD HxC --> use the "twisted connector" of the twisted cable.
> > - Drive 2 = floppy drive --> use the "untwisted connector" of the twisted cable.
> > - Set the J3 jumper of the HxC to "ID3/DriveA" (see manual of HxC)
> > In this configuration it it still possible to copy banks from floppy to HxC, but not using the "Copy Disk" function. You'll have to load the bank and do a "Save Bank" to "Disk 1"
> > 
> > Note: I didn't test the above configurations, I just derive them from the documentation I have...  
> > 
> > ///E-Synthesist 
> > 
> > 
> > --- In emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com, "erwanquinquin" <erwanquinquin@> wrote:
> > >
> > > 
> > > i have test the new firmware. Read and write work very well, so nice. But it is difficult to find the good IDE 34 pin cable. I would like to set the floppy drive as the upper drive ( to copy all my library on the hxc ) but I don't know how to set the jumber on the floppy drive cause of the "twisted" cable...
> > >
> >
>

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