Thatguyagain
Member
Hi,
Im trying to reserect a tandy 1000 with some problems and am seeking advice.
Ive got the memory plus card repaired (two d ram chips) and the hard card is on its way out (seek error reading drive c) but boots into the ms-dos 5 that was on the drive. Ive written the hard card off as a loss but im trying to use it to help get a floppy drive working since i can boot and run a dir on drive a and b.
Both original teac fd-54b-02-u drives error out with a drive not ready and will not spin. Im guessing the photo sensors are bad in both and ive deep cleaned both. I have a teac fd-55gfr 149-u drive kicking around i got from a friend that is a known good drive. I installed it by itself and it errors out as a general failure reading drive a. The light comes on, it spins up, and the head appears to seek. Ive tried reading multiply disks. The jumpers are on D0, FG, U1, and DC all others are open.
Does anyone have some advice or insite? Id like to get a drive reading so i can boot it from a disk. After that i was going to install a blue lava xt-cf bootable card into it, and ditch the hard card.
I tried making and formatting a master disk image onto the cf card using my windows 10 and utube and have failed so far.
Im trying to reserect a tandy 1000 with some problems and am seeking advice.
Ive got the memory plus card repaired (two d ram chips) and the hard card is on its way out (seek error reading drive c) but boots into the ms-dos 5 that was on the drive. Ive written the hard card off as a loss but im trying to use it to help get a floppy drive working since i can boot and run a dir on drive a and b.
Both original teac fd-54b-02-u drives error out with a drive not ready and will not spin. Im guessing the photo sensors are bad in both and ive deep cleaned both. I have a teac fd-55gfr 149-u drive kicking around i got from a friend that is a known good drive. I installed it by itself and it errors out as a general failure reading drive a. The light comes on, it spins up, and the head appears to seek. Ive tried reading multiply disks. The jumpers are on D0, FG, U1, and DC all others are open.
Does anyone have some advice or insite? Id like to get a drive reading so i can boot it from a disk. After that i was going to install a blue lava xt-cf bootable card into it, and ditch the hard card.
I tried making and formatting a master disk image onto the cf card using my windows 10 and utube and have failed so far.
