Unfortunatly, I have never seen that HDD thing becouse the monitor Is broken.
It generates a vertical line at every character, so it's impossible to understand what's write on It.
Is that thing that appears whit a "beep"?
Many of these older fdd drives are not directly driven. They use a belt, which may well have broken and need replacing, i've had to replace most of my notebook fdd drive belts over the past 2-3 years
Where did you find replacements? I've swapped belts in a few old Walkmans (as in the cassette player) thanks to one magnificent bastard in the Czech Republic who makes them to spec. Is there a similar magnificent bastard of floppy drives?
Unfortunately its a bit luck of the draw but I would measure the belt that came off (if it was degraded but not completely ruined) or i would use some string, wrapped round the pulleys and motor to get fairly accurate length and then pick up the assorted belt kits from ebay or aliexpress. So far I've managed to repair a fair few things thst had lost drive not limited to floppy drives but also cd-players, ps2s and xbox's
This is true, I had to replace the belt on the Citizen floppy drive in my Toshiba T6400DXC recently. It had gotten mushy and coiled itself around the motor shaft.
Sounds like your disk doesn't latches correctly onto the spindle and causes the motor to spin indefinitely. Look at the bottom of the floppy and note the rotational position of the metal part in the middle. Insert the disk, then eject it again and check if the center part has rotated. If it rotated, the drive can grab the disk but somehow doesn't notices it, possibly due to a broken switch somewhere. If the position hasn't changed, the mechanism that's supposed to latch onto the center part can't do that for some reason. Either way, if this behavior is consistent with other disks, the drive may need repairing.
Trozzul@reddit
Hey I have one of these also! My floppy drive makes the same noise but it won't read :( how did you get past the proprietary HDD stuff?
AcitoXd@reddit (OP)
Unfortunatly, I have never seen that HDD thing becouse the monitor Is broken. It generates a vertical line at every character, so it's impossible to understand what's write on It. Is that thing that appears whit a "beep"?
Trozzul@reddit
Have you not tried video out with VGA?
AcitoXd@reddit (OP)
Very intresting......
tomtom2215@reddit
Many of these older fdd drives are not directly driven. They use a belt, which may well have broken and need replacing, i've had to replace most of my notebook fdd drive belts over the past 2-3 years
Arael15th@reddit
Where did you find replacements? I've swapped belts in a few old Walkmans (as in the cassette player) thanks to one magnificent bastard in the Czech Republic who makes them to spec. Is there a similar magnificent bastard of floppy drives?
tomtom2215@reddit
Unfortunately its a bit luck of the draw but I would measure the belt that came off (if it was degraded but not completely ruined) or i would use some string, wrapped round the pulleys and motor to get fairly accurate length and then pick up the assorted belt kits from ebay or aliexpress. So far I've managed to repair a fair few things thst had lost drive not limited to floppy drives but also cd-players, ps2s and xbox's
74LS00@reddit
This is true, I had to replace the belt on the Citizen floppy drive in my Toshiba T6400DXC recently. It had gotten mushy and coiled itself around the motor shaft.
AyrA_ch@reddit
Sounds like your disk doesn't latches correctly onto the spindle and causes the motor to spin indefinitely. Look at the bottom of the floppy and note the rotational position of the metal part in the middle. Insert the disk, then eject it again and check if the center part has rotated. If it rotated, the drive can grab the disk but somehow doesn't notices it, possibly due to a broken switch somewhere. If the position hasn't changed, the mechanism that's supposed to latch onto the center part can't do that for some reason. Either way, if this behavior is consistent with other disks, the drive may need repairing.
AcitoXd@reddit (OP)
It reads disks without problems, so I don't know why It sounds like this but....It's funny!