Emax

Sorry, I meant surface mount soldering.

Chase

Michael Wisbech <michael@...> wrote:                             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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