Floppy notching

wiskow · Post by **wiskow** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 4:21 pm

Of course.

ohm · Post by **ohm** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 9:34 pm

Cool, I well have to pop my drive open and look into modding it.

Royas · Post by **Royas** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 9:40 pm

ohm wrote:Cool, I well have to pop my drive open and look into modding it.

the guide is pretty foolproof and helps you to identify where the traces needed are located depending on which board is in your particular 1541....

ohm · Post by **ohm** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 10:11 pm

Yeah I had a quick read through it and it doesn't look too bad.

ohm · Post by **ohm** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 10:38 pm

There was a sealed box of Verbatum 5.25's at Goodwill today, thrift store for those who don't know, unfortunately they were HD's so I left them. I did pick up a hole puncher though so I can notch the other disks and format them.

Clockmeister · Post by **Clockmeister** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 5:54 pm

ohm wrote:
Clockmeister wrote:I have also modified one of my 1541's to manually switch on and off write protection so I don't have to worry about notching B sides at all.
How did you do that, did you just solder in a toggle switch somewhere?

Yeah, mounted a toggle switch on the front and a drive select switch on the rear. I also modified the drive to run from a ATX PSU because the original PSU and regulators were fried and I burnt a JiffyDOS ROM and added that as well.

Finding where to connect the switch was done by probing the circuit and looking at the schematics.