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  • external drive +3I recently bought an external drive kit for my +3 [url]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/111267120287?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649[/ur…

    I recently bought an external drive kit for my +3
    Now my +3 drive is dead and the mainboard ... of the drive has been taken away ... Anyway When I plug this external drive in and power it ... it then it keeps saying drive not ready.

    ...
    morcar morcar February 2014 Hardware
  • Connecting a 3.5inch external drive to a +3 Anyone help me on this subject. I have tried connecting a DS/DD 80-track 3.5 inch disk drive to the Drive B port of my +3, but I can't get it to fo…

    ... 3.5 inch disk drive to the Drive B port of my ... that there is a Drive B connected. The external drive has jumper connections ...
    Deano7649 Deano7649 February 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • How do I password protect an external hard drive?my laptop is 50gb, my new external hard drive is 500gb I dumped most of my personal files from laptop to external drive. my laptop is password prot…

    ... laptop is 50gb, my new external hard drive is 500gb

    external drive.

    my laptop is ... do I password protect the external drive?

    Is there a ...
    thx1138 thx1138 September 2011 Chit chat
  • Where to find (black) external 3.5" floppy drivesI'm searching like a maniac, but I can't seem to find 3.5" external drives of external drive enclosures anywhere. What I need: some single or dual e…

    ... to find 3.5" external drives of external drive enclosures anywhere.
    ... looking for a costly ready set of drives: I ...
    Some possibilities:
    - External Amiga drives, adding power to ... PC floppy drive in) - these are available
    - External MSX ...
    bverstee bverstee January 2012 Hardware
  • External drive at lastWell I waited for the post to drop me off a External ZX Spectrum+3 floppy drive cable from Europe and it came with no problems, got no flopy drive Hm…

    ... me off a External ZX Spectrum+3 floppy drive cable from Europe ... no problems, got no flopy drive Hmmmm Ok, so off on ... now it all works perfectly drive "A:", "B:" now all I ... .

    BTW, The flopy drive units are Panasonic and NEC ...
    m6ymn m6ymn August 2013 Hardware
  • +3 Drive B ConnectorI've heard some people say the pinout in the manual for the +3 is incorrect and is actually in reverse. Does this mean that pin 34 on the connector i…

    ... 34 on the connector is Drive ready, 32 is side 1 select ... is the same (pin 34 drive ready) does this mean I just ...
    links links January 2007 Hardware
  • Changing a PS3's Hard Drive.When I bought my PS3 years ago, I had no idea how much of a hard drive hog it would be! At the time, I had a 20gb drive for my Xbox360 and wasn't get…

    ... just how fast a drive of that size will ... decided to upgrade my hard drive to a nice 500gb. ... I bought my drive, making sure it was ... stuff to an external drive, removed the old drive and put in ... saw all formatted the new drive anyway, so I thought ...
    Bermondsey Bob Bermondsey Bob August 2014 Chit chat
  • +3 upgrades advice neededI`ve just bought a +3 after years of wanting one here, [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ZX-SPECTRUM-3-128K-c-w-BUILT-IN-3-FLOPPY-DISK-DRIVE_W0QQitemZ5234…

    ... . They have removed the 'ready' signal and they are addressed ... (A:), DS1 (B:), RDY (ready signal) MTR (motor start) and ... internal drive and set the second drive to DS1 for your external drive.
    ready' signal to 'on' and enable ...
    KeepGood KeepGood September 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • SPECTRUM +3 NIGHTMAREGot my Specci +3 through the post this morning. The good news all the keys work and it turns on ok. The bad news the disk drive doesn't work. When yo…

    ... The cable used for the external drive is just a standard (old ... cable needed for the +3 external drive. Keep in mind you ... opposite side of the drive motor). If the external drive works then you ... ready signal as this will already be enabled by the internal drive ...
    KeepGood KeepGood January 2006 Hardware
  • Garry Lancasters +3e site down?Hi, I have been trying to access Garry's page about the +3e ROM, because I know of a utility for the +3 he has on the site which makes it possible f…

    ... off a broken Atari ST external drive (complete with its own ... a 3.5" drive with a switchable ready/diskchange signal, and ... has a 3.5" drive B, because I found ... another 3.5" drive with the right jumper on ... the cable for a fake READY signal on the PCW ...
    zeem zeem July 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Garry Lancasters +3e site down?Hi, I have been trying to access Garry's page about the +3e ROM, because I know of a utility for the +3 he has on the site which makes it possible f…

    ... off a broken Atari ST external drive (complete with its own ... a 3.5" drive with a switchable ready/diskchange signal, and ... has a 3.5" drive B, because I found ... another 3.5" drive with the right jumper on ... the cable for a fake READY signal on the PCW ...
    b00mzi11a b00mzi11a July 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Additional 3.5" Drive for the +3Hi. I've been thinking of various ways of getting data off of my 3" discs onto a PC and have a couple ideas, one of which is to get some +3e proms bl…

    ... need to short the ready pin. The ready signal is generated by ... you have your internal drive plugged in, the ready signal will be ... can boot from your external drive (external being the A drive).

    You ...
    KeepGood KeepGood August 2006 Hardware
  • +3 Drive B ConnectorI've heard some people say the pinout in the manual for the +3 is incorrect and is actually in reverse. Does this mean that pin 34 on the connector i…

    ... your A: drive, ready to use on your new 3.5" external drive.
    DEATH DEATH January 2007 Hardware
  • +3 Drive B ConnectorI've heard some people say the pinout in the manual for the +3 is incorrect and is actually in reverse. Does this mean that pin 34 on the connector i…

    ... ?) error, in that the drive?s connector pinout description from ... problem for connecting an external 3.5? drive."

    ... sense that Pin 1 IS Drive Ready on the +3 ( ... standard has pin 40 as drive ready, which explains why you ... to ground the drive ready pin.
    links links February 2007 Hardware
  • B: drive dont workHi all, I went to Maplin today got myself a DIY lead the one with the proper 34 way edge connector for the Spectrum+3 other end 34 way to floppy driv…

    ... built in PSU. The drive cable is connected with the ... drive, red stripe on the right. I've never bought a ready ... it's selected internally as drive B: (or DS1) - ... , I used an Amiga external drive. I used a bit ... D socket for the external drive, and the other end ...
    DEATH DEATH July 2007 Hardware
  • Asus Eee PC thoughtsBasics: UMPC with 7" screen. underclocked 900MHz Celeron M processor. Price: ?220. Connectivity: Wifi, 3xUSB2.0, MMC/SDRAM card-reader, 0.3mp webca…

    ... mode? Does anyone have a ready to run FUSE version for ... car boot sales. On the external drive I keep loads of occasional ... you run it on an external monitor its as good as ...
    ADJB ADJB May 2008 Chit chat
  • 3.5 drive (external)Hi, I read that I have to put a 'diode' on the ribbon cable (for the RDY signal). But so far I could not find where can I put it on the cable... Any…

    ... the READY signal cannot be changed easily on that drive)..
    drive is always ready.

    All ... If you will find some drive with READY signal jumper (older) you ... also run automatically programs from external drive (e.g. protected games, ...
    dg67 dg67 November 2009 Hardware
  • ZX systems on PC FDD! (TRD,Opus,D40/D80...)Hi. A friend suggested me a program that can force PC's FDD (even on the newest systems) to format and save programs of ZX Spectrum. Seems like it …

    ... into "thinking" that the external floppy drive is ready to be used and ... that it is the A: drive ... , right?[/QUOTE]
    You can generate the "READY" signal ... floppy cable yes. However the external drive connector on the +3 ...
    guesser guesser May 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Disc rotThis is happening to me more commonly,despite taking care of cd's/dvd's they decide not to play all sudden,i don't bother using the data recovery sof…

    ... 7 year old laptop is ready in less than one second ... mean I just leave an external drive plugged in, I don't ... to do is leave an external disc connected, and let Time ... amount extra on having an external USB hard disc and just ...
    Winston Winston August 2011 Chit chat
  • Won a +3 on eBay - which games to buy?After a couple of missed opportunities to get my hands on a +3, I finally won one in an eBay auction this afternoon (put in some sneaky bids in my lu…

    ... +3 as i have an external drive that takes double density disks ... as its got a floppy drive installed.

    I also ... +3 ready to be installed and i will change the drive belt ...
    morcar morcar October 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Won a +3 on eBay - which games to buy?After a couple of missed opportunities to get my hands on a +3, I finally won one in an eBay auction this afternoon (put in some sneaky bids in my lu…

    ... +3 as i have an external drive that takes double density disks ... as its got a floppy drive installed.

    I also ... +3 ready to be installed and i will change the drive belt ...
    Paul2010 Paul2010 October 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Inlay Project DiscussionAll, It's time this project was actually started in anger. The aim of this thread is to find out what every wants from it and the standards that sh…

    ... , but keep the larger ones ready for whenever the higher res ... that are sitting on an external drive but I think rather than ...
    richl richl November 2011 Support files
  • Why is the B Disk interface selling for so much on ebay?I often watch unusual interfaces that pop up on ebay, and I noticed that this B Disk interface just went for ?113: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.or…

    ... 3, get a 3.5" external drive, and a little bit of ... 710K.

    +3 external drive needs to be a Shugart ... I have had an Amiga external drive working well. It's ... external drive is accessed.

    Finally, the +3 external drive must have a ready ...
    DEATH DEATH July 2013 Hardware
  • Why is the B Disk interface selling for so much on ebay?I often watch unusual interfaces that pop up on ebay, and I noticed that this B Disk interface just went for ?113: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.or…

    ... 3, get a 3.5" external drive, and a little bit of ... 710K.

    +3 external drive needs to be a Shugart ... I have had an Amiga external drive working well. It's ... external drive is accessed.

    Finally, the +3 external drive must have a ready ...
    Macc Macc July 2013 Hardware
  • External floppy driveI suspect this has been asked before but any way as I am new here. Has any one used an external floppy drive unit on the Spectrum+3 before now? Que…

    ... DSDD floppies in your external drive, but once they are ... use any old floppy drive although I suppose it ... READY signal to be available on pin one of the drive ... this, a PC 1.44Mb drive does NOT.


    Q5: Pc drive - see above

    ...
    DEATH DEATH July 2013 Hardware
  • External floppy driveI suspect this has been asked before but any way as I am new here. Has any one used an external floppy drive unit on the Spectrum+3 before now? Que…

    ... refer to external floppy drives connected through the disk drive connector ... concerns would be shorting the READY signal, and make some ... the answer is yes. The external drive usually is B:, so ... you could force the external drive to work as drive A: so programs ...
    Zup Zup July 2013 Hardware
  • External floppy driveI suspect this has been asked before but any way as I am new here. Has any one used an external floppy drive unit on the Spectrum+3 before now? Que…

    ... concerns would be shorting the READY signal, and make some selectors ... are external Amiga drives, so long as Pin 1 is READY.

    The drive needs to be ... , you could force the external drive to work as drive A: so programs ...
    DEATH DEATH July 2013 Hardware
  • External floppy driveI suspect this has been asked before but any way as I am new here. Has any one used an external floppy drive unit on the Spectrum+3 before now? Que…

    ... managed to put a floppy drive in an old tape frive ... for a ready signal and a switch for the external drive to be ...
    gazj82 gazj82 July 2013 Hardware
  • New Floppy Interface for the +2a/b (black case)Hello everybody! For a long time I wondered about the posibility of adding a FDD to the +2a/b (black). I knew it was possible; All the logic is alre…

    ... to try and 3' amstrad external drive, that will be fun :)
    Jumper "READY/DC" must be closed only ... floppy drives cannot output the "READY" signal. I very much recommend ... two Samsung SFD321B modified for READY (they have a small ...
    BCH BCH December 2014 Hardware
  • Returning zx spectrum +3 owner - a few questionsHi everyone I'm a returning +3 owner, my spectrum has been dug out of the loft, not used since 1998. My setup was a +3 with a multiface 3 and a e…

    ... ) A switch to short the ready signal to ground is fine ... forever waiting for a not ready state otherwise.

    2 ... to work by forcing the external drive to respond to all accesses ... and simultaneously force the internal drive to ignore them. The problem ...
    guesser guesser September 2015 Hardware
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