Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

any chance of buying a fz20 off you to make the scsi circuit board for every one and ill give you a working fz1 drive i am also making the 4mb boards to fit in the expantion slot
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  From: farrfromit 
  To: CZsynth@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 2:45 AM
  Subject: [CZsynth] Good ol' FZ-1/10/20 disk drive issues


    Owning a couple of CZ's and a few FZ's already, swore I belonged to this group already. Guess not, so first post ...

  Recently, I picked up another cheap FZ-20 in the hopes that this one had a working disk drive. No dice. That makes 2 FZ-20's and an FZ-10 (and an FZ-1 before that, RIP), all sitting in storage collecting dust.

  It's cool that butchy.com has the drive specifics listed, but while appreciated, the directions are obtuse and near-impossible to follow. The most recent post about it here was a year ago, when Joaquim seemed to have some success converting a non-Shugart drive: http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/CZsynth/message/3551 . Unfortunately, I can't determine if he ever posted those directions / pictures.

  The most recent and interesting finding on the web was from earlier this year, discussing Shugart-friendly emulators: http://www.vintagesynth.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=45592 Again, a lot of talk, but no one really seemed to put it into actual play.

  I guarantee I'm not alone in this ... in fact, I'd wager easily over half FZ's out there now have dead and/or useless drives. So, I'm guessing at this point, my best luck would be to buying a standard 3.5" drive and building the conversion cable. Has anyone here done this successfully, and are willing to help? Huge, huge appreciation here if so.



  


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