Emax

wauw quick answers here.
it's my second drive excahnge i am about to do.
i will try your suggestions.
But what do you mean here :
"and I'm not set up to do any SM "

I really can figure out what SM is, in relation to a disk drive :))

Michael



At 13-09-2008 15:37, you wrote:

>Not sure if the post from me, but I've definitely done it before and it 
>works. You just have to find a creative way to fill the gap.
>
>If you look at the pcb on the floppy drive (assuming it has no jumpers for 
>drive select), then somewhere you will see a silk screen for DS and some 
>kind of surface mount resistor bridging two points. I.E. mine looked 
>something like
>(0)
>o
>|
>o---o (1)
>(I)
>
>Three points. One labeled 0, another labeled 1 and a point in the middle, 
>I. So when the drive is set DS1, the resistor bridges 1 and I. If you 
>carefully unsolder it and solder it between 0 and I, then it is DS0.
>The thing is that it is very probably a surface mount resistor and I'm not 
>set up to do any SM so it is kind of hard to keep this very tiny resistor 
>in place while you are trying to solder it back on and you can very easily 
>lose it if you are careless after removing it.
>
>Give it a try. Floppy drives are so inexpensive that if you mess it up, 
>then you can just try again on another.
>
>Good Luck,
>Chase Smith
>
>Michael Wisbech <<mailto:michael%40inoutflux.dk>michael@...> 
>wrote: Hi
>I looking for a disk drive for my emax, i understand that old Mac drives
>wil do.
>But in the archives of this group there is a post about modyfying an pc
>drive to an emax drive 'id 0'
>but it semed to me a bit unclear how to actually doing it, is the person
>still here ? have anybody else tried it ?
>any pictures of the process ?
>
>Michael W.
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