26 Aug
2012
26 Aug
'12
1:22 p.m.
Neva mind :-)
Steps are:
1) record sample FIRST
2) put in disk
3) save
Now you have a valid disk. Apparently the reason it was trying to
read and rejecting was because there wasn't anything already in any of
the banks. After recording a sample, inserting a disk did not
automatically try to read the drive.
I have now confirmed all the diagnostics pass and re-assembled the
keyboard (after a bit of cleaning up), and the outstanding mystery is
the one I emailed about before, trying to get the sysex stuff to work
right. Perhaps now that the drive is working there was some piece
that was failing on that, or there's the handshake time we discussed.
I haven't tested again recently.
On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Pete Hartman <pete.hartman(a)gmail.com> wrote:
So I finally have a window of time to use... I
replaced the belt, and
the drive appears to be working (I get proper motion), but I'm getting
"Illegal QD" errors when I go through the diagnostic routines, or if I
just put the disk in the drive.
These are NOT factory QDs. They're smith-coronas which I believe
ought to work. But they're blank.
So the question is: How do I format this disk? Can I just save to it once?
Or is this a thing where I've gotten out of alignment, and if it were
in alignment, it wouldn't give me an error, even on a blank disk?
That's really the question: do I have an alignment problem or a
formatting problem? If it's alignment, I can go twiddle with it. if
it's formatting, I think it's possibly more complicated...
Thanks
Pete