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by langph
Fri Apr 14, 2023 7:31 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: OqtaDrive
Replies: 153
Views: 87356

Re: OqtaDrive

Thanks for your response. The ready-made image did not work for me at first: it did not come live so I could not see what went wrong. I bought another genuine arduino nano: it appeared that I bought an arduino nano every and that did not work. My clone nano's did not work either. Eventually I got it...
by langph
Fri Apr 07, 2023 3:37 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: OqtaDrive
Replies: 153
Views: 87356

Re: OqtaDrive

I have an issue with my oqtadrive, external version pcb 1.2b. The assembly is conform specs, with motor, i swapped the electrolytic capacitor with a ceramic one: could not source an 0.1 uf electrolytic capacitor. I cannot connect from the Pi to the Arduino nano (tried an original one + aftermarket o...
by langph
Thu Jan 16, 2014 10:52 am
Forum: Hardware
Topic: HxC floppy emulator and Cumana controller
Replies: 18
Views: 11070

Re: HxC floppy emulator and Cumana controller

Rich, Thanks for posting the guide. Got it working, the problem was mostly the flat cable that is reversed, by cutting the lug with a stanley knife, the problem is resoved. I also got some images working. .flp images can be read as raw images and can thus be directly transfered to HFE format with Hx...
by langph
Sun Jan 12, 2014 7:21 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: HxC floppy emulator and Cumana controller
Replies: 18
Views: 11070

HxC floppy emulator and Cumana controller

I have bought an HxC floppy emulator to replace an 'old' floppy drive. I use a flat cable connected to a cumana controller and I adjusted the old floppy drive to work as master not as slave (from memory). Now I want to use the HXC instead of the floppy drive. Can anyone please inform me how can I co...