CosmicBoy Posted December 15, 2014 Share Posted December 15, 2014 Originals had their legs cut off unfortunately. Not looking good. You can solder them in a socket for a test. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyerd Posted December 15, 2014 Author Share Posted December 15, 2014 .....and binned. That'll teach me.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrax27407 Posted December 15, 2014 Share Posted December 15, 2014 Your EPROMs to set all three drives to 40-track are enroute. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyerd Posted December 15, 2014 Author Share Posted December 15, 2014 Your EPROMs to set all three drives to 40-track are enroute. Thank you. The HxC from Poland and the drive adapters from China arrived today which I had ordered 2 weeks ago - very quick in my book! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyerd Posted December 21, 2014 Author Share Posted December 21, 2014 (edited) I'm up and running finally!!!!! 80 track EPROMs & the Lotharek HxC installed. Just reading Omega's thread on the device and loaded the Starter.HFE image. SUCCESS!!! Thanks to everyone for all their help, especially Gazoo & Atrax27407. Its been a bit of a bumpy road, but I learnt a lot on the way and I finally made it. Now to learn about disk images and how to convert from DSK to HFE and vice-versa. One thing I'm not sure about is how to I create an 80 track image? Edited December 21, 2014 by wyerd 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 I'm up and running finally!!!!! 80 track EPROMs & the Lotharek HxC installed. One thing I'm not sure about is how to I create an 80 track image? CONGRATULATIONS! Making the 80 track disks is now simple (with Ti99Dir). Just follow these easy steps. 1) Load the program 2) Click on FILES 3) Select "Create new DSK image" 4) Choose the DSSD 80 track option, give it a name and thats it. Now you can convert it to an HFE, make multiple copies and populate your Lotharek. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyerd Posted December 21, 2014 Author Share Posted December 21, 2014 Loving the Extended Basic cart with Disk Manager 2000, BOOT, the HxC etc etc....... everything works together so well. Fantastic work guys! Just remembering the old way of how I used a tape recorder 31 years ago. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Just remembering the old way of how I used a tape recorder 31 years ago. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyerd Posted December 21, 2014 Author Share Posted December 21, 2014 4) Choose the DSSD 80 track option, give it a name and thats it. I'm running TI99Dir 5.3b which I think is the latest version, but it doesn't give the 80 track option. Is there a later version? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyerd Posted December 21, 2014 Author Share Posted December 21, 2014 Ah! Just found the right version. Google lists the wrong link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Lee Stewart Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 (edited) I'm running TI99Dir 5.3b which I think is the latest version, but it doesn't give the 80 track option. Is there a later version? Thanks. 5.5a is the latest. See Fred's site: http://www.ti99-geek.nl/ ...lee Edited December 21, 2014 by Lee Stewart 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyerd Posted December 21, 2014 Author Share Posted December 21, 2014 5.5a is the latest. See Fred's site: http://www.ti99-geek.nl/ Thank you. I'll bookmark it from now on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kl99 Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 nice to know it worked out in the end. There is another tool from mizapf that you should take a look in: http://www.ninerpedia.org/index.php/TIImageTool Have fun with your TI! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fritz442 Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 I'm up and running finally!!!!! 80 track EPROMs & the Lotharek HxC installed. Just reading Omega's thread on the device and loaded the Starter.HFE image. SUCCESS!!! One quick question, what exactly was wrong with the controlled card? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Yes, please let us know what the solution was. It may be an important troubleshooting step for the next person to do the modification--and even the most basic problems or mistakes are useful to know about, because we will all run into or make one of them sooner or later. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrax27407 Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Now that you have corrected the problem with that card, you might want to take a look at the original card. There could be a dry solder joint or a short somewhere on it as well. Take the sockets out as per Tony's instructions and redo it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyerd Posted December 21, 2014 Author Share Posted December 21, 2014 Lesson learnt - RTFM, especially where it says "....better success with these sockets when they are not quite all the way in when soldering, about the thickness of two sheets of paper above the board." The solder side looked OK :- However, the socket side was a different story as I had pushed the socket all the way in. Doing so increased the possibility of a solder run and bridging, the former in my case looking at the suspects circled here. Thanks Gazoo for suggesting that this may be the issue. Once these runs were removed and a new socket soldered into place as described by the instructions, the controller card worked, much to my relief. I do have another card that I attempted the mod originally, but it displayed different symptoms, so there may be a different underlying issue. I'll revisit this one at some other date as I now want to enjoy using the equipment. Thanks to everyone who helped me out with this. I do have a follow-up question - is there anything I need to do to get a 3.5" FDD working in conjunction with the HxC which has the dip switches set to two devices? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyerd Posted December 22, 2014 Author Share Posted December 22, 2014 Update to my last question:- The 3.5" drive I want to add as DSK3 is a Sony MPF920 (around $8 on eBay) which doesn't have any drive select switches as it was aimed at the PC market. However, on the drive PCB, there is a 0 Ohm resistor which is set to SEL 1, This can be removed and another 0 Ohm resistor or wire can then be bridged across SEL 0. This solution wouldn't work in my case as I already have the Lotharek HxC set to DS0 (DSK1) and DS1 (DSK2), so I needed another way. I could buy another drive with drive more select switches, but then I found this on Mainbyte (Yes, why didn't I look there in the first place?!?!) http://www.mainbyte.com/ti99/hardware/cables/35drive.html Removing the wire to pin 12 and switching the pin 14 wire to pin 12 of the end of the straight floppy drive cable gave me the result I wanted. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Lee Stewart Posted April 24, 2023 Share Posted April 24, 2023 (edited) On 12/20/2014 at 10:40 PM, Lee Stewart said: 5.5a is the latest. See Fred's site: http://www.ti99-geek.nl/ ...lee Please note that Fred’s website is now http://hexbus.com/ti99geek/. ...lee Edited April 24, 2023 by Lee Stewart update 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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