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Ol Rattler

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Greetings,

Does anyone know where I can find a replacement floppy driver that I managed to burn up. It fits into an 1994 IBM. Please see photo for specs.

Thanks,

Patrick
 

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Which IBM is it going into? The information I have is that the Mitsumi D359TS is a standard 1.44MB drive so nearly any other 3.5" high density drive would work. Some IBM machines had unusual requirements.
 
krebizfan said:
Which IBM is it going into? The information I have is that the Mitsumi D359TS is a standard 1.44MB drive so nearly any other 3.5" high density drive would work. Some IBM machines had unusual requirements.
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As far as I can tell is it's an C.C.I. IBM computer.
Can you suggest where I may find that driver? eBay?
 
Given that you wrote "driver" not once but every time - what exactly are you looking for? A new floppy disk drive, or rather a floppy controller?

Give us some more info about what you "managed to burn up". If all you need is a bog-standard 3.5" hd floppy disk drive, yes, ebay is full of them.
 
Ol Rattler said:
As far as I can tell is it's an C.C.I. IBM computer.
Can you suggest where I may find that driver? eBay?
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I am a bit confused by the CCI reference. Could you provide a picture of the computer? Do you know what caused the previous "burn up"?

Ebay has a lot of replacement drives that should work in place of the Mitsumi drive. Depending on what the exact system you have, you may have to choose whether it has a front cover or the specific shape of the eject button. There is only so much information afforded by a label on the side of a drive.

Note that given the increasing prices of drives, you may want to consider getting a Gotek and working with images if you don't have a lot of disks to recover data from.
 
Timo W. said:
Given that you wrote "driver" not once but every time - what exactly are you looking for? A new floppy disk drive, or rather a floppy controller?

Give us some more info about what you "managed to burn up". If all you need is a bog-standard 3.5" hd floppy disk drive, yes, ebay is full of them.
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You'll have to forgive me because I'm a bit of a novice when it comes to troubleshooting. I'm looking for a floppy drive. While troubleshooting other card issues, I plugged the floppy drive power cable into the floppy drive unit, while the computer was powered up. I noticed a spark and the floppy drive no longer worked. It worked before.
 
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krebizfan said:
I am a bit confused by the CCI reference. Could you provide a picture of the computer? Do you know what caused the previous "burn up"?

Ebay has a lot of replacement drives that should work in place of the Mitsumi drive. Depending on what the exact system you have, you may have to choose whether it has a front cover or the specific shape of the eject button. There is only so much information afforded by a label on the side of a drive.

Note that given the increasing prices of drives, you may want to consider getting a Gotek and working with images if you don't have a lot of disks to recover data from.
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The floppy drive quit working when I plugged the power cable into the floppy drive while the computer was powered up. I saw a spark and that was it.
 

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Please be more careful. We've mentioned this to you before. By now you should know you do not have an IBM branded computer. This matters around here since we troubleshoot a lot of actual IBM branded equipment. You can describe your computer as an "IBM Compatible that is branded on front with a sticker that says CCI". And then share that picture. That will help everyone know what you are talking about.

Yes, you can replace that floppy drive with a standard internal 1.44 floppy drive, which can be found on Ebay as well as other places. Many brands will work.

Seaken
 
seaken said:
Please be more careful. We've mentioned this to you before. By now you should know you do not have an IBM branded computer. This matters around here since we troubleshoot a lot of actual IBM branded equipment. You can describe your computer as an "IBM Compatible that is branded on front with a sticker that says CCI". And then share that picture. That will help everyone know what you are talking about.

Yes, you can replace that floppy drive with a standard internal 1.44 floppy drive, which can be found on Ebay as well as other places. Many brands will work.

Seaken
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My apologies and in future, I will adhere to the advise and thanks for the floppy drive help as well.
 
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