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From 05/25/2018 to 06/23/2018

FO 12:23 PM Developer: RE: Use a real floppy drive?: Did you get it working? foft

AL 03:47 PM Developer: RE: Use a real floppy drive?: Things you can try besides swapping the SIO cable:
- Check/change the power supplies : 1050 9v AC 2-3A. Indus GT (DC?), Eclaire XL 5v dc 1-2A
- Check the ribbon cables to the SIO board; one of mine got stuck on a header during transp... Almerian
8B 01:44 PM Developer: RE: Use a real floppy drive?: I haven't gotten a chance to test on booting from one, but I have tested 3 1050 drives and a Indus GT drive. I was trying my XF551 that was working perfectly as well but for some reason won't power on now. I will do some more testing thi... 8bitclassics

FO 09:35 PM Developer: RE: Use a real floppy drive?: One thought, the default OS is high speed patched and perhaps that conflicts with your drives. You could try using the standard one too. foft
FO 09:24 PM Developer: RE: Use a real floppy drive?: Just been playing for 20 mins with aspeqt, my real 1050 and the internal drive.
Afraid I can't reproduce this. I suspect a bad SIO cable perhaps?
That said, what kind of drives are you using? I wonder if they are using different s... foft
FO 07:54 AM Developer: RE: Use a real floppy drive?: If you take the disk out of sdrive 1 does it then work? foft
8B 02:01 AM Developer: Use a real floppy drive?: I have tried formatting a floppy and copying a disk in 4 different physical drive. It keeps erroring error 173 on formatting. I am just using DOS 2.5 in drive assigned to 1 off the SD card and then assigned a physical drive to all other ... 8bitclassics

19 03:10 AM Developer: RE: SD Card: Thanks,
I've ordered a variety of different brands and sizes. Ill report my findings. 19Echo
AL 02:02 AM Developer: RE: SD Card: I'm using a Kingston 8GB card at the moment, seems to work fine. Almerian

FO 09:46 PM Developer: RE: SD Card: It has to support 512 byte sectors and SPI mode. I tend to use 1-2GB.
I've not tried larger, has anyone else? foft
19 06:47 PM Developer: SD Card: Anyone know the maximum size of memory card to use? 19Echo

FO 06:37 PM Developer: RE: Any boards arrived?: Some other useful notes from chats online about the boards:
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What is included is:
i) Main board with all the important bits
ii) Add-on board with SIO, PBI, Cart, SIO2PC USB and joystick ports
iii) 40 pin cables to connect them ... foft
FO 06:33 PM Developer: RE: Any boards arrived?: I should add, I made some simple 'get started' videos. The core has moved on somewhat since, now it stores profiles/rom on the built in flash card. The sd card can still override these, so the settings file on the sd card to initially ge... foft
FO 06:31 PM Developer: RE: Any boards arrived?: Fantastic, the fun begins:-)
Please feel free to ask for anything you get stuck on. I don't mind being asked the same thing multiple times. foft
AL 01:36 PM Developer: RE: Any boards arrived?: I just picked it up from the post office. Tonight a guy is bringing by an mini-ITX case I bought from the local market place.
I'm going to install it this weekend! Almerian

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