Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 23 05:15:47 EDT 2020 | gabriel1blue
My floppy drive is different. https://youtu.be/egS7fn3RweM This looks like something I need to try.
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 22 22:13:20 EDT 2020 | gabriel1blue
I got new belts for the original floppy drives and installed them but the machine was reset to Japanese and after changing it back to English the drives are not running or powering up even though we can measure that the 5 volts are coming into it. I
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 22 14:37:27 EDT 2020 | kumarb
Hi. Did a similar update to our Emerald-X (YV88X) and the USB Floppy Drive emulator works like a champ! Installed within a few minutes with 100% success. Way more elegant than 1.44M floppies. Can you share more details on the FD Emulator you have so
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 22 15:25:05 EDT 2020 | gabriel1blue
Thank you for your help. I did purchase one of those emulators but didn't work for some reason. Is there maybe a different setting on the jumpers? I will try again with the software you recommend and hopefully that does the trick. Gabriel
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 22 22:08:35 EDT 2020 | gabriel1blue
The one difference is that the one from my machine has a 26 flex cable and gets the 5 volts from it as well, not an external source.
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 22 21:20:41 EDT 2020 | compit
I have installed these https://pl.aliexpress.com/item/1586956574.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.64075c0fte25Rn in Assembleon Topaz-X (Yamaha YV100X) and Emerald-X machines and they work fine.
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 23 05:02:34 EDT 2020 | gabriel1blue
I change the settings to match another machine we have and that actually got the original drives working after replacing the belt. I ordered an adapter that will connect to the 26 pin flat cable and adapt to a 34 pin connector and pull the power from
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 27 05:54:19 EST 2007 | m7mdshms
I want to replace my FDD with a driver to read flash memory instead of Floppy disks, but uses the ordinary floppy interface on pc mother board
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 20 15:04:06 EDT 2009 | rgduval
Put the files on a floppy. At the machine, use the import file tool to bring the file in; tell it that you're importing from floppy. The machine will find the appropriate files on the floppy, and import them to the correct directories. cheers ..ro
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 19 11:34:37 EDT 2013 | chifutbol
"The disk of B drive has not been formatted as a PCB Data disk." This is the error I'm getting when trying to install lines on a new installation of the Gemline PCB Editor. I have tried using a new floppy, formatted in both opal and topaz machines,
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