Vintage Synth Repair

Hi again Larry,

This is the Holy Grail when it comes to the FZ (this, and backing up the OS- but it looks like that might soon be answered  ;)    ).

Anyhow, the floppy that Casio used is a JU-255-p.  It's a Matsushita built drive- but by the model number it's probably Panasonic.  Impossible too find.  Period.  Casio long ago stopped supply this part.

Buchty (hum,.. I'm starting to see a pattern here,..) has done some work the the drive, and has posted some info on how to modify a drive to work on a FZ.  

The URL is:  http://www.buchty.net/casio/fz1-diskdrive.html

I've tried doing the mod to a Teac FD-235 series drive, but mine did not have the same hardware under the hood as the one he modified so I was unable to get the drive speed down, and the FZ never worked with the disk I tried.  I'm going to be trying some other floppies and hopefully I can get one of the working <fingers crossed>

Also in my reading, I've come to believe that the floppy that Casio used is a XT based drive.  Look up Amega, and there is a fair amount of work about how to get them to work a modern 3.5" PC drive.  I'm not sure, but based on the same sorts of behavor that the Amega and the Casio do with modern floppy drives, I think they were designed for the same drive type (I'm guessing).

If I learn anything, or can get one of the floppies I have working on my FZ10m I will let you know.

Will you please keep me posted on anything that you learn.  Thanks Larry.

Off to copy OS disks,...


TC, Mike   





-- "Larry T." <larry@...> wrote:



Anyone know what 1.44Mb floppy drives are compatible with these
samplers?  I need to replace the drive in my FZ-20M.  It is still
working (for the moment) but the mountings are mangled and the drive
is making excess noise.

Larry T.






 
Yahoo! Groups Links



 


___________________________________________________________________
Speed up your surfing with Juno SpeedBand.
Now includes pop-up blocker!
Only $14.95/month -visit http://www.juno.com/surf to sign up today!