Gelson Dias Santos <GELSON%SBU.UFRGS.ANRS.BR@uicvm.uic.edu> (05/09/91)
I need some advice from peoples who are using a Chinon FZ 354 drive as an
amiga drive. I want to add one as an external drive to my A500. I tried to
replace my internal drive by the Chinon, and it worked,but without disk change.
I think I have to configure the driver's jumpers properly. What is the correct
configuration? The jumpers I found on the back of the drive are:
DS2... ....DS3
. . ....MD
. . . ....RDY
. . . .
o-o-o o-o o o
! ! !...TTL/CMOS
o-o-o o o-o o
. . . .
. . . ...DC
. . ....MM
DS1... ....DS0
The default configuration who came in the drive are DS1,MM,DC,TTL.
If someone could give me an explanation about each one, I would be very
happy.
* Gelson Dias Santos * Bitnet/Internet: GELSON@SBU.UFRGS.ANRS.BR *
* Porto Alegre - RS * Sorry, english is not my native language! *
* BRAZIL * (Alguem fala portugues?) *johnhlee@CS.Cornell.EDU (John H. Lee) (05/09/91)
In article <53045@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Gelson Dias Santos <GELSON%SBU.UFRGS.ANRS.BR@uicvm.uic.edu> writes: > I need some advice from peoples who are using a Chinon FZ 354 drive as an >amiga drive. I want to add one as an external drive to my A500. I tried to >replace my internal drive by the Chinon, and it worked,but without disk change. >I think I have to configure the driver's jumpers properly. What is the correct >configuration? The jumpers I found on the back of the drive are: > > DS2... ....DS3 > . . ....MD > . . . ....RDY > . . . . > o-o-o o-o o o > ! ! !...TTL/CMOS > o-o-o o o-o o > . . . . > . . . ...DC > . . ....MM > DS1... ....DS0 > > The default configuration who came in the drive are DS1,MM,DC,TTL. > If someone could give me an explanation about each one, I would be very > happy. Try changing the jumper from DC to RDY. On the IBM-compatible Toshiba drives I have, the DISKCHANGE signal is jumper-selectable to appear on the RDY signal line instead of its usual place (on pin 11, I think.) It appears that changing the jumper might move the RDY and DISKCHANGE signals back to where the Amiga expects them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The DiskDoctor threatens the crew! Next time on AmigaDos: The Next Generation. John Lee Internet: johnhlee@cs.cornell.edu The above opinions of those of the user, and not of this machine.
Gelson Dias Santos <GELSON@sbu.ufrgs.anrs.br> (05/14/91)
First of all: I would like to thanks John H. Lee <johnhlee@cs.cornell.edu> and
Hal <hgm@ccvr1.cc.ncsu.edu> who sent me instruction on how to do this drive
work properly, including disk change.
Second: If you are not one of the guys above, but sent me a mail, well, I
think my host lost it. We had a disk crash this weekend and all mails
received from last friday to this monday morning was lost...
I still have some problems: I want to use that drive as an external one, but
until now, it work only when I replace it by the internal. Looking on the
drives pinouts on the docs, I found a little difference between the internal
and external connectors: the external has a line called IORESET. Where have I
to link this line in the drive (pin number)? In addition to this, is there any
other thing to do? A friend of mine (who is trying to use a identical drive)
said me maybe we need a little interface (?) to connect this drive as an
external. A flip-flop or something. Is it true?
My system is an A500 1M rev.5. The drive is an Chinon FZ 354.
* Gelson Dias Santos * Bitnet/Internet: GELSON@SBU.UFRGS.ANRS.BR *
* Porto Alegre - RS * Sorry, english is not my native language! *
* BRAZIL * (Alguem fala portugues?) *