Despite the absolutely proprietary nature of the PS/2 line, internally the floppy drives look fairly ordinary. Aside from the connector and form factor. They even have a drive ID jumper. What use is that in a PC compatible?
This was loose inside. Any idea where it goes?
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I created a reference diskette (the drive is 720k only btw), but it only briefly spins up. A friend with the same drive said the electrolytics on the spindle motor pcb were leaking on his. So I guess that's an issue on mine too.
Well, I have 10µF SMD caps in stock, but not 1µF 50V. Only these through hole caps, and checking them, the ESR seems to be a bit high at first glance. However, the expected ESR goes up with maximum voltage and lower capacitance. So it is fine
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Seizure time. Srsly is it asked too much to check for low battery instead of just going nuts with no way to stop it until it is empty?
Very interesting! Before, the monitor would know it's getting a signal but the image would stay black. The computer would sit a bit and then access the floppy drive shortly, beep twice and then do nothing. Still no image. My assumption was, that the boot process is completely silent if the system lost its configuration, and it requires the configuration diskette before it will even know it has graphics.
I was wrong. The black screen was a function of the dead caps in the floppy drive. Huh.
I was wrong. The black screen was a function of the dead caps in the floppy drive. Huh.