Hi,
i've been trying to replace and old chinon fz 357 floppy drive installed in a REIS RV16 soldering robot. I've tried dozens of different configurations but the machine doesn't recognizes the disks. It always emits a message saying that the disks needs to be formatted. On trying formatting the disk always raises a write protect error on the disk.
somebody has any experience with similar devices?
Emulation of chinon FZ 357 drive on a robot
Re: Emulation of chinon FZ 357 drive on a robot
Have you the emulator ?btv wrote:Hi,
i've been trying to replace and old chinon fz 357 floppy drive installed in a REIS RV16 soldering robot. I've tried dozens of different configurations but the machine doesn't recognizes the disks. It always emits a message saying that the disks needs to be formatted. On trying formatting the disk always raises a write protect error on the disk.
somebody has any experience with similar devices?
> On trying formatting the disk always raises a write protect error on the disk.
The floppy cable is probably connected to the wrong way, but a picture of the device may help here...
Re: Emulation of chinon FZ 357 drive on a robot
Thank your for your response.
here are 2 pics with the drive in the original mount and with the emulator.
here are 2 pics with the drive in the original mount and with the emulator.
Re: Emulation of chinon FZ 357 drive on a robot
What about the power supply for the emulator ?
What can you read on the lcd ? (a picture please).
What can you read on the lcd ? (a picture please).
Re: Emulation of chinon FZ 357 drive on a robot
The power cable is not present because I had to unplug the emulator from the robot to take the photos
Anyway, the emulator works as expected with a PC. The problem is that I don't know the configuration parameters for the emulator to work as the chinon FZ-357 drive. I've tried dozens of combinations without success.
Anyway, the emulator works as expected with a PC. The problem is that I don't know the configuration parameters for the emulator to work as the chinon FZ-357 drive. I've tried dozens of combinations without success.
Re: Emulation of chinon FZ 357 drive on a robot
You probably need to use the Shugart mode. But to be sure please post a picture of the jumper setting of the original disk drive here !.btv wrote:The power cable is not present because I had to unplug the emulator from the robot to take the photos
Anyway, the emulator works as expected with a PC. The problem is that I don't know the configuration parameters for the emulator to work as the chinon FZ-357 drive. I've tried dozens of combinations without success.
Re: Emulation of chinon FZ 357 drive on a robot
Thank you very much
Re: Emulation of chinon FZ 357 drive on a robot
I confirm : the right setting is ID0-A. You must choose the Shugart interface mode.