Re: Commodore PLC TIB DD-001 / Drive 2001

From: Spiro Trikaliotis <ml-cbmhackers_at_trikaliotis.net>
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2018 20:49:29 +0200
Message-ID: <20180415184929.lbxtnbvwuutrhwuf@hermes.local.trikaliotis.net>
* On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 12:37:37PM +0200 Tomas Vondracek wrote:
 
> Anyone have the manual or experience with this drive? I can format a floppy
> disk via SYS 32783, but I can't save any data.

I do not have any experience. In fact, I never even heard about this
drive.

I did a quick search and found this page:
http://www.retroport.de/C64_C128_Laufwerke.html
There is a scan of two pages from the German magazine 64'er.

They say that the drive is very unreliable if used with the orginal PSU,
because it has spikes with more than 1.1A, that is too much for the PSU.
At least for Germany, the drives that are sold should get an own PSU.

This should not happen with a PSU from GB, however.

Perhaps, you have the same problem?

Regards,
Spiro.

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Spiro R. Trikaliotis
http://www.trikaliotis.net/
Received on 2018-04-15 21:00:02

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