Microdrive spinning ad infinitum...
- vanpeebles
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Re: Microdrive spinning ad infinitum...
A franken-QL! Is it wired to a lightning conductor in the back garden?
Re: Microdrive spinning ad infinitum...
Oh, the irony! Oh the cruel fate! The very thing that was meant to better the QL brought it to it's knees! The PicoPSU, being a dirty switcher that it is, oozes such unpleasant frequencies that the microdrives loose their reason. I tried it both ways - moving the picopsu away or moving the MDV (thanks to my new, longer cables) out. It immediately regains composition as soon as they're 3 cm apart...
WHY?!?
WHY?!?
Re: Microdrive spinning ad infinitum...
The inductors on the switching regulator produce a rather large stray field which is probably being induced directly into the head and electronics. Even on the original QL the left microdrive has a metal shield between it and the motherboard stuff and in that setup there is FAR less electromagnetic interference generated there.
Re: Microdrive spinning ad infinitum...
Yes, it seems I’ve hit a wall here :/ I was thinking about vDriveQL, but that’s external only as I gather...
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Re: Microdrive spinning ad infinitum...
I think there was an internal version of vDrive. There is also QL-SD
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Re: Microdrive spinning ad infinitum...
Well I just soldered together tetroids qbide
But it gives me black screen for now - I reall need to find an IDE device. Not so easy anymore
But it gives me black screen for now - I reall need to find an IDE device. Not so easy anymore
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Re: Microdrive spinning ad infinitum...
If you get a black screen - are you sure none of the expansion pins in the QL bus are bent?af0l wrote:Well I just soldered together tetroids qbide
But it gives me black screen for now - I reall need to find an IDE device. Not so easy anymore
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