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I think I figured it out: head pressure. After gently putting extra finger pressure on the top head the drive was able to complete a...

With more testing my cable seems fine as per Deramp's cable page 3. I can write double sided single density just fine, which to me means...

I guess I will start using IPA. I hooked the 8" floppy drive up to a 486DX with Dos. Although 22disk will format, it will not copy...

A few more observations and questions: Should the heads be perfectly aligned to one another? on one drive, the top head is about 20%...

I have cleaned the heads with rubbing alcohol (everyone uses IPA, whats the diff?). I thought about head pressure. I pushed a tiny bit...

With more testing I have a little more information: It seems I can write small files (1k - 2k) correctly. larger files will error out on...

An update: I can write double density to the drive, but with a lot of read after write errors. The errors always come from surface 1...

I need some advice for a problem I am having. I have an 8" Floppy drive that gives me read after write errors when using DS/DD disks. I...

I have figured out what I wanted to know. Everything has been revealed in the Multi-User Basic manual. This manual describes a multi...

I have been reading some more and I am still confused. Looking in the 64KZ manual, it shows how to use 16KZ cards with it (banking up to...

When I am stuck in this situation, I use an oscilloscope and probe pins while you type on keys... the 12volt are signals ready(-12) not...

I am able to boot cromix with this PIICEON card, but I cannot login because I don't have another card, only 16Kz's and the DMB 6400...

So CDOS can not and was never designed to use more than 64K of ram? Can Cromix use 16KZ cards?

All of my knowledge is for the Z80 version: I also had to edit this a bunch because I was mixing the 16KZ with the 64KZ cards. This...

Looks like SB1 was for DOS/disk cache. I still don't know what 2-5 on SB2 do. Also, since E4 is sheered, and from what I have found it...