Re: Slimline LS120 SuperDrive Floppy drive

Posted on 2022-09-07, 02:45

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by EleDip

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How much would you charge for one that the parts installed ? Im hoping to make a neat external floppy drive from one of these but i cannot do surface mount. Im perfectly willing to pay the cost and a bit for your time. Unfortunately I'm not able to provide these boards finished as a service, nor do …

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Re: Slimline LS120 SuperDrive Floppy drive

Posted on 2022-01-19, 06:32

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by EleDip

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I checked your website and videos about this adapter because i found a similar LS120 drive in a dead oscilloscope. One thing i noticed is that you mention the KX15 connectors in your video's and in the Mouser Project. The KX15 is the connector in the LS120 drive itself, you need the KX14 connector …

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Re: Slimline LS120 SuperDrive Floppy drive

Posted on 2021-02-24, 03:22

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by EleDip

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Well the V2 PCBs arrived and unfortunately needed another tweak as the tabs/slots weren't lining up as well as I'd like. New boards ordered and the files on the website have now been updated to V3. So, about another week until they arrive and then I should be able to mail out the few that have been …

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Re: Slimline LS120 SuperDrive Floppy drive

Posted on 2021-02-21, 07:42

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by EleDip

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Yes! A pcb the same size of the drive could be useful in one of my projects. I need a slim drive including front and back, so I cant use the current pcb. In my case, is for a floppy/usb combo in regular 3 1/2 size. Alright, reading your reply above it sounds like you just want the PCB to be the …

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Re: Slimline LS120 SuperDrive Floppy drive

Posted on 2021-02-16, 06:47

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by EleDip

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Oh, I meant one that fits in the back of the slim drive. As close as the same height and width as possible. I'm want to make a sort of combo drive. I.E. a slim dvd burner from a laptop with a slim ls120 under it. So I cant use a big pcb because it would bump into de dvd drive. Same idea as the …

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Re: Slimline LS120 SuperDrive Floppy drive

Posted on 2021-02-13, 07:16

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by EleDip

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EleDip, would it be possible to have a version of just the pcb to fit in the back of a slim bay, instead of full sized 3.5 bay? Hi. What kind of slim bay do you mean exactly? If you have a need for a different design you are certainly welcome to take the KiCad files and modify the PCB design for …

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Re: Slimline LS120 SuperDrive Floppy drive

Posted on 2021-01-17, 08:02

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by EleDip

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Hey, good to get your replies. Hi! Yeah, I sent you a PM. I actually found an adapter that can be used to convert jae ide connectors to normal (notebook) ide. The one I have is a "Sony Vaio PCG-R505B/P Hard Disk Cable". Looks like they were common internal adapters in Sony notebooks. Very …

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Re: Slimline LS120 SuperDrive Floppy drive

Posted on 2021-01-11, 08:36

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by EleDip

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Someone messaged me asking if I got my Superdisk drives working with a PC, but apparently I'm not a senior enough member on Vogons to be able to send private messages to reply to the PM I received... Following my last post I did develop an "interposer board" that converts the slimline IDE connector …

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Re: Slimline LS120 SuperDrive Floppy drive

Posted on 2020-10-31, 15:10

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by EleDip

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Hi Thermalwrong, hope you don't mind me adding to this thread years later. I've just pulled some LKM-FC33-5 out of some broken Panasonic PV-SD4090 digital cameras, and run into the same issues described above. I tried plugging the drive into a regular 50 Pin JAE to Standard 40 pin IDE Adapter and …

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Help identify this DB25 to DIP16 cable please!

Posted on 2020-10-05, 09:28

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by EleDip

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Hi, I've got a cable that came in a bag of random electronics/computer stuff from a thrift store a few years ago and was hoping someone might recognise it and help identify it! It appears to be a DB25 male (parallel port) to DIP16 male (IC socket) cable, but I have little idea what it could have …

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Re: Modding BIOS/CMOS to support 2 floppy drives in computer that supports only 1 flopy drive.

Posted on 2020-07-08, 06:08

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by EleDip

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Thanks for the very helpful replies. It was great to be reminded that a schematic for the board could be found :D And that has saved me pulling out the motherboard to confirm that the chip has only one DSA# and MOA# (and no B: equivalents), and nothing connected to pins #12 and #16 of the Floppy …

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Modding BIOS/CMOS/etc to support 2 floppy drives in computer that supports only 1 flopy drive.

Posted on 2020-07-06, 01:20

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by EleDip

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Greetings Time-travellers, I have a Gigabyte GA-8VM800M-775 motherboard from ~2005 that I've successfully been using as a DOS/98SE/XP retro machine. Recently I installed a second floppy drive into the case only to rediscover disappointingly that the BIOS only supports one floppy drive (only A: and …

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Re: Sound Blaster Live! Book

Posted on 2019-08-31, 14:25

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by EleDip

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Sorry to necropost but for anyone looking at this book in future: I just purchased this book (pdf version) due to several references here on Vogons and elsewhere. It does go through the evolution of the major releases (Blaster, Vibra, Live, etc) but does not list or reference each distinct model. …

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Re: Seeking advice for P-166 i430VX SOCKET-7 system

Posted on 2019-08-31, 07:39

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by EleDip

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Just a quick follow-up on the IDE slot tester which arrived last week. I disconnected the wire I had soldered to return the fault to the motherboard and sure enough the tester shows that there is a bad connection on PIN 13. Selection_258.jpg So it Looks like the tester would have helped to diagnose …

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Re: Seeking advice for P-166 i430VX SOCKET-7 system

Posted on 2019-08-11, 17:03

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by EleDip

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Dude this is an awesome fix! Great work. I'm pretty sure I would not have figured that out. Glad to see this Socket 7 mobo get rescued even if it is a PC-CHIPS. Haha. haha, and thanks! Unfortunately the fix is more a testament to the unsavoury amount of time I spent trying to debug the issue than …

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Re: Seeking advice for P-166 i430VX SOCKET-7 system

Posted on 2019-08-06, 08:20

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by EleDip

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Hi again. First thank you for all the suggestions which were very helpful! I'm glad to report that the problem is fixed for real this time :D Yesterday the board was giving very clear indicators that it was suffering from an intermittant physical issue (as if to remind me that it was already obvious …

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Re: Seeking advice for P-166 i430VX SOCKET-7 system

Posted on 2019-08-04, 14:40

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by EleDip

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ESCD is often written into the BIOS chip. Have you tried to lower the FSB to see if it would make a difference ? Jump from 66 to 60MHz or perhaps 55 can show some improvement and perhaps disabling of cache also. If those have no effect the problem is not related to some timing violation but instead …

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Re: Seeking advice for P-166 i430VX SOCKET-7 system

Posted on 2019-08-04, 12:40

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by EleDip

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doh! While I have a much cleaner board :) it seems my success was short lived. Bet you could have seen that coming :dead: Since my last post I've been trying to get both CDROM and HDD to play nice together on this system, during which I would have rebooted ~100 times with out any sign whatsoever of …

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Re: Seeking advice for P-166 i430VX SOCKET-7 system

Posted on 2019-08-01, 14:20

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by EleDip

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First of all I should say that the problem seems solved :) So read backwards if you just want the solution that seems to have worked for me. It may seem odd but have you tried going down to say, a single stick of RAM? I had run memtest86+ from floppy and the RAM passed the tests but due to your …

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Seeking advice for P-166 i430VX SOCKET-7 system

Posted on 2019-07-31, 16:41

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by EleDip

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Greetings! I'm seeking some advice for getting a HDD working with an old system I am trying to refurbish, though I guess I can use this topic for any follow-on questions about the system. For now I am just trying to install MS-DOS 6.22 on this system, but having HDD related problems. Here are some …

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