also the problem with the disk constanly running when the disk is in the drive is the same for the original drive aswell thats why they burnt out people for got to take out the floppy when not uploading sounds into the fz samplers
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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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Re: [CZsynth] Good ol' FZ-1/10/20 disk drive issues
2009-08-26 by jammie