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    Chinon FR-506 Disk reading issue

    It is working now! I must have missed something in a previous post but adding the jumpers to match exactly what was listed here fixed the issue! It can now read HD Disks now! Thank you all very much.
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    Chinon FR-506 Disk reading issue

    Not exactly. If I put in the new HD floppies, the drive reads it as only having 360K of space. If I then try to format the disk to 1.2MB, it errors out. I am currently using windows 95 on this machine and file explorer is reporting back just under 360K of usable space. As a note, I have tried...
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    Chinon FR-506 Disk reading issue

    Looking that the schematics, that makes sense with it needing to be DS1. So I made a few changes to the jumpers and nothing seemed to have made a difference. Still can only read the Low Density floppies and no HD ones. I have attached a picture with what I currently have, hopefully you can read...
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    Chinon FR-506 Disk reading issue

    Hi Larry Thanks for the response. This is a replacement drive as I previously had an EPSON SD-600 that used to work until my 2 year old stuck a cd in it and destroyed it in the process. Bear with me please as I am learning all this for the first time and want to make sure I understand how all...
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    Chinon FR-506 Disk reading issue

    Hello I am looking for any assistance with trying to figure this strange issue out. Just got this drive and it is not reading any 1.2MB disks. It can read 360K disks with no issues. The troubleshooting steps I have done are as follow. Verified drive B in bios is set to 1.2MB (Drive A is a...
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