Emax

FYI...Shugart, is the last name of the guy who
invented the Floppy Drive, and subsequently the Hard
Drive. All Floppy drives are technically "Shugart"
drives. Apple drives work a little differently, I'm
not sure if they are diferent enough to be considered
non-Shugart or not.
In anycase, sounds like newer drives might need
modification to work in an Emax. As I mentioned in a
previous message, new floppy drives can be modified to
work in an Atari ST, so I suppose it's possible to
modify one for an Emax.

Bob

--- jh <jyrkih@...> wrote:
> >The disk drives from emulatorarchive.com are quite
> expensive.  You need a
> >Shugart-compatible drive, which is different from a
> normal PC drive.
> >There's details somewhere around for making up a
> cable to convert between
> >the types (the pins are slightly different).  Try
> http://www.buchty.net for
> >the info, IIRC it's in the Casio FZ-1 section.
> >A drive from a Mirage or SQ80 or similar ought to
> work.  You could try an
> >early Atari ST drive, it might work.  You might
> have more luck with an Amiga
> >drive, I seem to recall that they were Shugart. 
> I've heard it mentioned
> >that Emaxes used Apple drives - they don't.
> >HTH
> >  Gordon.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> is this true, how do i identify which drive is
> "shugart" drive?
> 
> i just tested epson smd-300 1.44k drive taken fron
> ast 386SX pc ('90)
> only changed the drive id from 1 to 0.
> it booteds fine, loaded banks and played ok. i kept
> it on for about 1 hour.
> didn't notice anything exceptional (i.e. smoke.)  I
> dont have
> data/schematics for emax original drive  so i don't
> know if there are some
> differencies in pin order .
> 
> also once i tried a drive taken from external amiga 
> fdd case(citizen
> 720kb),  changed id, but it didn't work, maybe some
> other jumpers were not
> set correctly.
> 
> If anyone else have tested any othe drive, please
> come out and share your
> experience!
> I  think it's important to find out which drives are
> compatible because
> those original drives are starting to fail, sooner
> than later!
> also it would be nice to find a replacement
> powersupply too.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Jyrki
> 
> 
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