dummymuncher
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I'm trying to fix a floppy drive on a piece of "computerized equipment", not a pc. (thus no OS or cpu/ram) The drive looks like a standard 1.44 floppy drive, so I tried to replace it with 7 different working drives. the machine software won't recognize any but the original.
so I tried fixing the drive by opening it. Dust! I cleaned it really well, unscrewed the read write heads and the little electric motor and everything.
good and bad idea I guess cuz the drive now works normally. It now reads, writes and formats floppies, but other pcs cannot read the disks. I can format a disk on the machine, read and write files, and format it again on an a computer, and read and write files. basically making any floppy usable on both the machine and the computer at the same time but niether one can read the other's saved files.
I'd just put a new drive in but this drive seems to be the only one the machine will take. I assume I've misaligned the heads in cleaning, how do I get them online again. I have to be able to read saved information on other computers and vise versa. what do I do?
PS> if it helps the drive says panasonic model JU-257 and has about five tiny switches on the circuit board. one with markings 0,1,2,3, one with PS2, AT, and a few others that I'm not sure about. I've never seen a floppy drive with switches, so I wonder if thats what makes this so special that its the only one the machine will take. thanks in advance for any help.
so I tried fixing the drive by opening it. Dust! I cleaned it really well, unscrewed the read write heads and the little electric motor and everything.
good and bad idea I guess cuz the drive now works normally. It now reads, writes and formats floppies, but other pcs cannot read the disks. I can format a disk on the machine, read and write files, and format it again on an a computer, and read and write files. basically making any floppy usable on both the machine and the computer at the same time but niether one can read the other's saved files.
I'd just put a new drive in but this drive seems to be the only one the machine will take. I assume I've misaligned the heads in cleaning, how do I get them online again. I have to be able to read saved information on other computers and vise versa. what do I do?
PS> if it helps the drive says panasonic model JU-257 and has about five tiny switches on the circuit board. one with markings 0,1,2,3, one with PS2, AT, and a few others that I'm not sure about. I've never seen a floppy drive with switches, so I wonder if thats what makes this so special that its the only one the machine will take. thanks in advance for any help.
