First post, by sirlemonhead
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Hey,
So I decided to pick up one of these drives. It's a Matshita drive and I have it on my Windows 10 x64 machine with a PCIe sata controller with a sata->ide adapter.
Works well, well..more or less. The eject button on the drive won't work when I'm in Windows as I hear since Vista this has been an issue where the OS 'locks' the drive. Running EjectMedia from here: http://www.uwe-sieber.de/drivetools_e.html fixed that though! A simple "ejectmedia a:" from a command prompt will eject the disk.
I only want this drive for reading and maybe writing 1.44 standard disks, and I can read and write to these seemingly OK so far.
What doesn't work is WinImage. Trying to read the contents of a 1.44 disk results in an Error popup box "Disk error n'65535 on track 0, head 0" - does WinImage support doing this? Writing IMA/IMG files won't work either.
Also, how do these drives work on a hardware level? is there a normal type of head that moves back and forth? I know we shouldn't use normal 3.5" standard floppy drive cleaning disks on these - do these drives need to be cleaned? How do we do this? Can we open it up and use IPA on the heads?
