Atari ONYX Jr (Clone from Bazil)

[Atari ONYX Jr (Clone from Bazil)]

6 hours ago, ZuluGula said:

Two dollars?

Some countries use a period to denote thousands, and a comma where we in the US would put a decimal point.

[1050 Disk Drive Error 173 & 144]

6 minutes ago, Nezgar said:

Here it is... in this prior case replacing U21 (3086) resolved, but theres lots of other related potential components to look at and try swapping from a working drive.

Thanks! I'll check it out.

 

[1050 Disk Drive Error 173 & 144]

When I try formatting the head doesn't move. If I try writing the heads move.

 

[1050 Disk Drive Error 173 & 144]

I pulled out my second 1050 drive I had in storage and I am getting Error 173 (Bad Sectors at Format Time) when trying to format a disk (I've tried multiple disks), and Error 144 (Device Done Error). The drive boots and reads directories OK. The drive speed is 287. I have cleaned the heads. What else can I try?

[Floppy Data Loss w/1050 Drive?]

Thanks everyone. I cleaned the heads and every disk is being read without a problem.

[Floppy Data Loss w/1050 Drive?]

2 hours ago, bob1200xl said:

The insides of the disk jacket may gum up over time, particularly if they have been stored in a humid environment. This puts a lot of load on the spindle and may even stop the disk or slow it down. You need to watch the diskette as you close the drive latch. It may slow down or even stop. You can either cut the media out of the jacket and insert it into a 'good' one. Or, only close the latch far enough to get the diskette spinning (usually about half-way).

Bob

Another great suggestion! Thanks!

[Floppy Data Loss w/1050 Drive?]

36 minutes ago, Nezgar said:

The old disks may have shed crud onto the ceramic read/write head. Open up the drive and clean it back to a glassy shine with a cotton swab and isopropyl alcohol.

Also very closely inspect any disks you use for lines etched into the magnetic surface - that is a sign that the material is being literally scraped off the surface and if so you should minimize any use of the disks except for a 1-pass sector copy backup to a modern storage device.. An archiving effort like this often involves repeated head cleaning between disks as well...

Thanks Nezgar. I'll open up the 1050 tomorrow and clean the read/write head as you suggested. The disks don't look like they lines etched in them, so hopefully things are not too bad. I'll report back.

[Floppy Data Loss w/1050 Drive?]

I pulled out of storage some Atari data disks formatted with DOS 2.5. The first few times I accessed the disks on my 800XL/1050 combo I was able to perform a directory listing and open any data files (print to screen). For some reason I now cannot access anything on these disks. No file list, nothing. I sometimes get an Error 138 when trying to read the directory on one of these disks with MyDos. I can access many other disks with no problem. I tried using Copymate to preform a sector copy, but it found no data. Any ideas what's going on here or what else I can try?

[Print Disk Contents Utility?]

Thanks For the link, Luis. I had not come across the website before. I looked through the Antic listing and found a program that prints a disk sized frame around the files list that you can cut out and put in the disk sleeve, which is exactly what I was looking for.

 

https://www.atarimagazines.com/v5n4/FloppyFiler.html

 

[Print Disk Contents Utility?]

8 minutes ago, Geister said:

I'm pretty sure Antic had a listing printer that did that and included the ability to print it in such a way that you could cut and fold the print-out into a disk sleeve.

That would be great. Maybe someone will post the name of the Antic program if they know which one it is.

[Print Disk Contents Utility?]

Thanks everyone!

[Print Disk Contents Utility?]

I was sorting through a box of disks and came across a few that included a printed insert of the disk's contents the same size as the actual floppy disk. If you look closely at the printout you can see a printed outline the same size as the floppy which you would cut around. I obviously used some kind of disk utility to make these, but can't think what it would have been. Does anyone have an idea of what that utility could be or what I can use to make similar printouts? Thanks.

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[Atari Drives for sale (needs work)]

I'm interested in the 1050 power supply by itself. Total cost including shipping to 98501?