Floppy problem with Superboard II
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2023 4:20 pm
Hi all,
I have a Superboard II connected to an external backplane with a D & N Products MEM-CM9 RAM and floppy controller card. Everything was working until one day it suddenly stopped reading disks. The drive light comes on and I hear the head move once, but that's it. I tried running the floppy test and I get the below. I also ran a memory test and everything checks out fine. Any ideas?
Drv=A/5.25 Pattern $18 Passes 1 Normal test R/W > 1
WRITE PROTECT ALL DISKS EXCEPT TEST DISK!
INSERT DISK TO BE TESTED
If errors found the output is DDDD (#### GG BBP)* EEEE
where DDDD is difference between number of bytes written
and read. EEEE is total errors, #### is byte count from
start of track, GG is good byte, BB is bad byte,
P is byte had parity error.
Errors that fit on line are printed.
ESC KEY OR ^X ABORTS...
PRESS ANY KEY WHEN READY >
RTRK 0 -2167
RTRK 1 -2167
RTRK 2 -2167
RTRK 3 -2167
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I have a Superboard II connected to an external backplane with a D & N Products MEM-CM9 RAM and floppy controller card. Everything was working until one day it suddenly stopped reading disks. The drive light comes on and I hear the head move once, but that's it. I tried running the floppy test and I get the below. I also ran a memory test and everything checks out fine. Any ideas?
Drv=A/5.25 Pattern $18 Passes 1 Normal test R/W > 1
WRITE PROTECT ALL DISKS EXCEPT TEST DISK!
INSERT DISK TO BE TESTED
If errors found the output is DDDD (#### GG BBP)* EEEE
where DDDD is difference between number of bytes written
and read. EEEE is total errors, #### is byte count from
start of track, GG is good byte, BB is bad byte,
P is byte had parity error.
Errors that fit on line are printed.
ESC KEY OR ^X ABORTS...
PRESS ANY KEY WHEN READY >
RTRK 0 -2167
RTRK 1 -2167
RTRK 2 -2167
RTRK 3 -2167
RTRK 4 -2167
RTRK 5 -2167
RTRK 6 -2167
RTRK 7 -2167
RTRK 8 -2167
RTRK 9 -2167
RTRK 10 -2167
RTRK 11 -2167
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RTRK 26 -2167
RTRK 27 -2167
RTRK 28 -2167
RTRK 29 -2167
RTRK 30 -2167
RTRK 31 -2167
RTRK 32 -2167
RTRK 33 -2167
RTRK 34 -2167
RTRK 35 -2167
RTRK 36 -2167
RTRK 37 -2167
RTRK 38 -2167
RTRK 39 -2167