First post, by n0m4d
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Hello i have a problem with my floppy drive, it cant read any disk, its spinning, head is moving but cant read. Can i use regular floppy drive in my IBM?
Reply 1 of 3, by pentiumspeed
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l33t
Need capacitors replaced on this drive first and see?
And yes, but need to create modified adapter using resistors and modified cable adapter.
Cheers,
Great Northern aka Canada.
Reply 2 of 3, by Horun
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l33t++
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Great looking Computer ! Yes you need a modified cable to use a PC compatible floppy drive as the power and data are on same cable going into the original drive, sorta like early MAC's. An IBM compatible floppy drive made for an some IBM computers in the 286/386 era is not the same as a IBM compatible PC floppy included in IBM XT and most any 286, 386, 486 clone. Always thought IBM was very stupid to do that change for a few years on the 3.5" floppy drives when every one else was using standard PC 3.5" floppy interfaces.
Hate posting a reply and then have to edit it because it made no sense 😁 First computer was an IBM 3270 workstation with CGA monitor. Stuff: https://archive.org/details/@horun
Reply 3 of 3, by n0m4d
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Newbie
I did some cleaning inside and lubricate, and I took out stepper motor, its a big problem? Need to be calibrated?