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  • Hardware description - MB-02+ interfaceOn this thread will soon released info about MB-02+ idisk interface ( memory paging mechanism, list of ports, addressing, MB IDE, schematics, etc... …

    ... ) while my old original MB02+ does have problems with ... http://www.truppel-online.de/mb02/MB02_PLL.jpg[/IMG]
    ... have to be lowered for modern drives:

    R26 ==> ... sinclair/DOWNLOAD/MB-DOCS/MB02+%20modifications.zip"]MB02+ modifications.zip[/URL ...
    ingo ingo August 2013 Hardware
  • Hardware description - MB-02+ interfaceOn this thread will soon released info about MB-02+ idisk interface ( memory paging mechanism, list of ports, addressing, MB IDE, schematics, etc... …

    ... ) while my old original MB02+ does have problems with ... http://www.truppel-online.de/mb02/MB02_PLL.jpg[/IMG]
    ... have to be lowered for modern drives:

    R26 ==> ... sinclair/DOWNLOAD/MB-DOCS/MB02+%20modifications.zip"]MB02+ modifications.zip[/URL ...
    velesoft velesoft August 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…

    ... /> DS1: Enables the use of drives configured as DS1
    RDY ... : Forces the READY signal (for drives which cannot output this signal ... not recommend to power floppy drives that uses the +12v line ... a +3 power supply. Most modern drives uses only the +5v line ...
    BCH BCH November 2014 Hardware
  • ZX Spectrum 3.5 Floppy help and adviceGod I'm useless. Can I please ask for some serious advice here as I'm just too uneducated to get anywhere with this! The Problem. I want to be abl…

    sorry to jump in. whats the twist needed for modern drives and how does it differ from the twist in pc cables?
    vanpeebles vanpeebles December 2004 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…

    what kind of floppy drive is it? I didn't think most modern drives had the right signalling?
    guesser guesser July 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Plus-D drives...Can anybody recommend somewhere that I might be able to find a 3.5" drive which would work with the +D interface? (I'm doubting that just any 3.5" d…

    ... bit of mystery around the drives.

    You can ... not modern drives.

    2) Most PC drives are HD disk drives (although ... also DD and ED disk drives). The PlusD can only address ... supply of externally boxed disk drives, and blank DD disks. ...
    rwap rwap February 2007 Hardware
  • Plus-D drives...Can anybody recommend somewhere that I might be able to find a 3.5" drive which would work with the +D interface? (I'm doubting that just any 3.5" d…

    ... bit of mystery around the drives.

    You can basically ... to select this, but not modern drives.
    .[/QUOTE]

    I ... if maybe more types of drives have this options.
    Pilsener Pilsener February 2007 Hardware
  • New Opus Discovery tool addedFinally, after some years wait, a new [B]Opus Discovery[/B] tool, [URL="ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/tools/pc/OpusRead_v200.zip"][U]Opu…

    ... 40-tracks that normal 3" drives can handle. OPD disks are ... gives the fastest performance for modern drives. Otherwise I use a slightly ... during seeks on some old drives (including 3" +3/CPC units ...
    obo obo June 2007 Development
  • +3 and 3.5 Floppy Disk DriveCan anyone please help ?. I have a +3 with a faulty Floppy Drive and have a couple of spare 1.44 IDE 3.5 HD Floppy Drives. Does anybody know of a…

    ... that you cannot use a modern disc drive on the +3 ... ' signal to be present, which modern drives do not produce. [B]however ...
    guesser guesser September 2007 Hardware
  • How do you make a CD play at its normal speed in a PC?OK, annoying. I want to play a CD using my laptop but it seems silly to me to have the thing going at 24x generating a ton of heat and noise. I tried…

    ... music at that speed. With modern drives you wont notice any difference ...
    RND RND July 2008 Chit chat
  • How do you make a CD play at its normal speed in a PC?OK, annoying. I want to play a CD using my laptop but it seems silly to me to have the thing going at 24x generating a ton of heat and noise. I tried…

    [QUOTE=RND;286793]With modern drives you wont notice any difference with heat or noise output at high speeds.[/QUOTE]I refer the honourable gentleman to the second line of the original post and also the second line of post 11 in this thread. Think on ;)
    Vertigo Vertigo July 2008 Chit chat
  • +3 and amstrad 6128 disk b port compatibility questionAfter having read many web pages, secarica's long text and guesser's ascii-art diagrams for connecting a pc floppy to +3 drive B slot, I found myself…

    ... from both modern PC drives and Old PC drives (AKA Shugart compatable drives).
    [/LIST]
    [b]Modern drives:[/b] Have a Disk Change ... /> The big difference between Shugart drives and modern drives is this signal. If ...
    spodula spodula October 2008 Hardware
  • 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…

    ... of the piece of wire. Modern drives don't have the jumpers ...
    guesser guesser November 2009 Hardware
  • 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…

    ... ready.

    All the modern drives I've tested work in ...
    dg67 dg67 November 2009 Hardware
  • 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…

    All modern drive have the Speccy-like ... /> So I do think all modern drives work and can be easily ...
    dg67 dg67 November 2009 Hardware
  • 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…

    [QUOTE=Pilsener;401365]Not all drives are compatible with the +3.< ... read a list of recommended drives somewhere, but I cannot remember ... thread?

    all standard modern drives are compatible with the +3 ...
    guesser guesser November 2009 Hardware
  • IDE controllerRecent time I have problems with my ide hdds. I turn on the computer, and the bios won't detect both primary ide drives. Then I open case, pull out a…

    Modern drives attempt to hide bad clusters ...
    AndyC AndyC January 2010 Chit chat
  • How can I modify a modern floppy disk drive to work with +D, Disciple, etc.So I've got a +D, a Disciple, and this MicroPeripherals QL Disk interface. For all these I use a single cumana 3.5'' disk unit with its own power sup…

    ... I've only used "modern" drives [mostly ripped from old ... use"-signal found on recent drives I think) and jumpers ... drive 1 (DS0). Recent drives are usually quite a ... have a few spare drives which allow chaging the ... TEAC IIRC still produces drives which can be set ...
    Shockwav3 Shockwav3 July 2010 Hardware
  • How can I modify a modern floppy disk drive to work with +D, Disciple, etc.So I've got a +D, a Disciple, and this MicroPeripherals QL Disk interface. For all these I use a single cumana 3.5'' disk unit with its own power sup…

    ... problem when experimenting with modern (HD) drives has to do with ... the light. On older drives all the possible configurations could ... them...... Newer (PC related) drives sometimes have a few quite ... PCB, but the most of modern drives are just plain 'Drive A ...
    roko roko July 2010 Hardware
  • How can I modify a modern floppy disk drive to work with +D, Disciple, etc.So I've got a +D, a Disciple, and this MicroPeripherals QL Disk interface. For all these I use a single cumana 3.5'' disk unit with its own power sup…

    all modern drives are actually hard wired to be "drive B" hence the twisted section in all floppy cables to make them "drive A"
    guesser guesser July 2010 Hardware
  • How can I modify a modern floppy disk drive to work with +D, Disciple, etc.So I've got a +D, a Disciple, and this MicroPeripherals QL Disk interface. For all these I use a single cumana 3.5'' disk unit with its own power sup…

    [QUOTE=guesser;459823]all modern drives are actually hard wired to ...
    roko roko July 2010 Hardware
  • 3.5" drive on +3I've been trying to use a 3.5" DD drive on my +3 with no success. I have connected it to Drive B connector with a 34 way cable with 5.25" connector a…

    ... HD drive taken from a modern PC) with the ready signal ... cable as you did. All modern drives work good, no need to ...
    dg67 dg67 December 2010 Hardware
  • 3.5" drive on +3I've been trying to use a 3.5" DD drive on my +3 with no success. I have connected it to Drive B connector with a 34 way cable with 5.25" connector a…

    ... HD drive taken from a modern PC) with the ready signal ... cable as you did. All modern drives work good, no need to ...
    Hercules Hercules December 2010 Hardware
  • The Idiot's guide to 3.5 inch floppies on a +3All help gratefully received, including blow by blow instructions and tutorials. I am interseted in adding a floppy drive (3.5 inch) to my +3 as an …

    ... the other.

    Modern floppy drives don't provide the old ... ]Drive[/U][/SIZE]
    Any modern floppy drive will work as ... won't work.
    All modern drives are hard wired to appear ...
    guesser guesser December 2010 Hardware
  • The Idiot's guide to 3.5 inch floppies on a +3All help gratefully received, including blow by blow instructions and tutorials. I am interseted in adding a floppy drive (3.5 inch) to my +3 as an …

    ... ]Cable[/U][/SIZE]
    Modern floppy drives don't provide the old ... the drive).
    ..
    All modern drives are hard wired to appear ...
    orange orange December 2010 Hardware
  • The Idiot's guide to 3.5 inch floppies on a +3All help gratefully received, including blow by blow instructions and tutorials. I am interseted in adding a floppy drive (3.5 inch) to my +3 as an …

    ... drive parameters. For 3.5" drives you'll generally set 1 ... .44M, and for 3" drives you can pick any 5 ... much more reliable overall, as modern drives spin very close to the ... correct 300rpm. 3" drives vary quite a lot and ...
    obo obo April 2011 Hardware
  • Opus Discovery - problem reading disksHello, I recently got an Opus Discovery 1 but unfortunately for me it seems to be temperamental. :-( The ZX Spectrum that is connected to it powers…

    ... over the 40-track-stepped drives and see if there is ... mix 40 and 80 track drives and media. The difference in ... be easier to switch to modern drives for everything, and convert the ...
    obo obo June 2011 Hardware
  • Progress Sprinter resurrectionI've been digging through my HDD once again and found all the docs on the sprinter again (pcb files/schematics/solder plans/bios sources/software etc…

    ... /> ************
    Only old PC FDD drives work. Density problem. Those new ... old (and working :) ) FDD drives of PC to make them ... costs to the point where drives become useless. On hardware ... interface standards allowing to use modern drives (i.e. it even ...
    Shockwav3 Shockwav3 July 2011 Hardware
  • How many full time users of Linux on the forum?How many of you on WOS forum use Linux as a permanent OS replacement (excluding casual duel boot users who also duel boot Windows?). I use Linux Min…

    ... particular track is negligible on modern drives compared to the time it ...
    guesser guesser March 2012 Chit chat
  • How many full time users of Linux on the forum?How many of you on WOS forum use Linux as a permanent OS replacement (excluding casual duel boot users who also duel boot Windows?). I use Linux Min…

    ... particular track is negligible on modern drives compared to the time it ...
    Hercules Hercules March 2012 Chit chat
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