Now I'm on the fence Plus vs SE/30

[volvo242gt]

You'll need a flashlight, but, if you look inside the slot on the right side, just below the front edge of the floppy carrier, you'll see two white pins that stick up. Those are what senses if the floppies are 800K/400K or 1.4MB. If you don't have them, then someone forgot to do the SuperDrive upgrade when they put the new board in.

-J

 

[uniserver]

well i was getting the bus errors when i tried to format 1.44 disks.

but i could read them fine,

it was funny when i put in a formatted known good 1.44 it would show up, i could even make a folder.

but when i tried to go into the folder it would lock up and say file/folder does not exist.

i think i tried to format an 800k disk and it would not do it successfully but it would try.

have you tried to format an 800k disk?

i am still super confident the issue is with a trace or 2 on the main board that has suffered from cap goo and rot.

i washed it, so there is no cap goo residue anymore.

 

[insaneboy]

I have not tried a known good 800k, I did try a dud, it failed as expected. Than a 1.44meg unknown I tried to format as 800k, it made it 3/4 of the way before it failed. Some point I'll try some other 800k floppies. I was able to copy data to an 800k disk...

 

[techknight]

Bourns? IWM?