I have a 1000 RL/HD that I believe the has a dead Floppy controller. I have tried two 720kb Tandy floppy drives and several regular 1,44 MB floppies (with a modded floppy cable and the DS jumpers set to DS0) drives spin but will not read).
The 20mb ST-325X HDD does work and the system is able to boot from the HDD which only has boot files (msdos.sys io.sys command.com and an autoexec.bat).
So I have no way to get any new data into the system, I have tried to use a 3rd party floppy controller to get a working FDD but it does not seem to work (the Sergey Kiselev FDC with multi floppy bios and a mini/micro-2 FDC card). I can get the BIOS'es do load but the drives will not read.
I have also tried to get the a XT-IDE Glitchworks Rev 04 to work but unable to get that Bios to load when using both 8 and 32kb roms.
Basically has anyone had any luck getting a 3rd part floppy controller working or a XT-IDE if so what settings bios. I know in my 1000 SL I had to remove the FDC IC but with the FDC solder in in the RL/HD not possible(Maybe ground a pin to turn it off?) I dont want to make any major unremovable mods as I'm looking sell the the RL/HD soon.
and as stupid as it sounds i even tried to take the HDD out and connect it to standard IDE controller did not work . but does still work in the rl/hd
The 20mb ST-325X HDD does work and the system is able to boot from the HDD which only has boot files (msdos.sys io.sys command.com and an autoexec.bat).
So I have no way to get any new data into the system, I have tried to use a 3rd party floppy controller to get a working FDD but it does not seem to work (the Sergey Kiselev FDC with multi floppy bios and a mini/micro-2 FDC card). I can get the BIOS'es do load but the drives will not read.
I have also tried to get the a XT-IDE Glitchworks Rev 04 to work but unable to get that Bios to load when using both 8 and 32kb roms.
Basically has anyone had any luck getting a 3rd part floppy controller working or a XT-IDE if so what settings bios. I know in my 1000 SL I had to remove the FDC IC but with the FDC solder in in the RL/HD not possible(Maybe ground a pin to turn it off?) I dont want to make any major unremovable mods as I'm looking sell the the RL/HD soon.
and as stupid as it sounds i even tried to take the HDD out and connect it to standard IDE controller did not work . but does still work in the rl/hd
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