Recent content by cbmeeks

I bought a new battery and it still didn't help. The next thing I did was pull out the drive and take a close look at the caps. Sure enough, two of the electrolytic caps leaked on the board. I put the hot air gun on it to remove them and immediately smelled bad fish. :) On closer...

I'm a professional software developer....so yeah. "This should work" is my middle name. LOL

Ah, good point. When the computer is on, I can confirm 6.0V is at the battery terminals. And, of course, I made sure the polarity was correct. Pardon my ignorance, but is there some kind of different chemistry the lithium batteries provide that a simple bench PSU does not (that matters)?

I guess I will have to bite the bullet and just buy one. lol. I will do that tomorrow. I was just hoping to play with this thing tonight. Thanks!

Evening, everyone. I finally got the reference disk created for my PS/2 Model 50 Z. The battery that came with it is only showing 2.0V. Unfortunately, I don't have any spare batteries at the moment. I thought about hacking something together with some AA's this weekend. However, I'm not...

I got it to work!! I looked at that file 15 times and it did not occur to me that the file size was wrong. Someone even asked me if I was sure it was 200K. I'm such an idiot. It's been a LONG week. lol I have no idea how I managed to corrupt that 1.4MiB file into a 200KiB one. Thanks to...

**UPDATE** OK, hang on....I see that I was really doing something wrong. That image file is corrupt. Stand by!

Looks like you copied the entire 1.44MiB. Mine doesn't get that far. I'm really starting to think I just have some bad disks. I'm going to see if I can find others. **UPDATE** I found some more floppies. I'll try those and report back. :-)

Ugh. That's pretty much what I'm doing. I use Fedora but I can't imagine that has anything to do with it. Until I can figure this out, I don't suppose I could get those files zipped up and I will manually put them on the disk? Or, better yet, how can I decompress the image? I tried Peazip...

The image is 221,184 bytes. http://ibmfiles.com/ibmfiles/ps2/hamilton/rf5060a.zip Thanks!

Weird, everything about the commands seem to work just fine. But the disk is blank. Here is what dd reports after I did another format: 432+0 records in 432+0 records out 221184 bytes (221 kB, 216 KiB) copied, 24.192 s, 9.1 kB/s

cmp: EOF on rf5060a.img after byte 221184

Well, ufiformat seemed to work. I unmounted the disk, formatted it, flashed it with both dd and balena, mounted...and still blank. FYI, I was wrong about IBM providing this disk. It was from "IBMFILES". Not affiliated with IBM. Anyway, the image I am trying to download is below. I assume...

You're right about the constantly polling. I took the disk out and thought to myself...is Linux just like Amiga? LOL I'm doing a raw format with ufiformat now...

Yes, I'm sure. I can see and hear the drive spinning. This is what lsblk reports: NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS sdc vfat FAT12 PS2REF 7716-7D8A 1.4M 0%...