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Usually those simple loaders just display all the executable files on the disc. Add more files and they'll probably just show up automatically.

Yep, replace it and you should be good to go. Can test the rest of it first by bypassing the fuse if you want, but don't leave it plugged in too long....especially if it catches fire....lol

Current fuse in the blue shrink tubing, Chip is thermal. Test both for continuity/resistance. If either shows no continuity, it's the culprit.

Supposedly there was a modified DOS 2.5 version for the MicroNet that had a retry feature for when the SIO bus was in use by another computer. Does anyone know of an existing image of this DOS?

Has anyone found a North American version of this monitor yet? I searched for an hour and the best I could find had component and composite but no s-video. Anyone? look here http://www.lge.com/us/computer-products/monitors/index.jsp First one I looked at had s-video. Look at the pdf spec sheets to see all the inputs. They don't list everything on the web page specs.

I did have some problems with ATR's that wouldn't mount once. I don't know if I ever did get them working, and now that I think about it I think they did have lowercase letters in them. Good catch!

I don't remember offhand how I did it, but back in the day I installed a write protect switch in my happy drive with one of those tri-colored LEDs. Green = Fully Write Protected Yellow = Disk Notch controlled WP Red = No Write Protection I still have the drive, if I have time I'll crack it open to refresh my memory. It was very similar to the above, but used a DP3T (center off) switch using the other pole to control the color of the LED.

What kind of power supply are you using? maybe it just can't supply enough current. Check your 5 Volt line with everything powered up and see how many volts you are getting.

Have you tried pressing the reset key after a few seconds? The SIO2IDE takes longer to initialize than the computer so it will timeout initially and you have to press reset after it is done to boot off the device. I believe there is a way to wire it in so that the computer will wait for it to initialize but I don't know the details.

Read the discussion of the Quintopus and a similar project that Gunstar put together in this thread starting at post 40: http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?s...topus&st=25

I'm currently using a Sandisk Ultra II 4GB card. I have also used a SMART 256 MB Card and I'm sure I've used others without issue. What kind of CF/IDE adapter are you using? Is it powered separately or does it receive power from IDE pin 20? Is that configured correctly on the adapter? My SIO2IDE is powered directly from the SIO port and provides power to the CF/IDE adapter on pin 20 with no external power at all.

Mine takes about 10 seconds to initialize. I know that part of what it does during that time is read some information from the drive, so there may be a direct correlation between the number of files on the drive and initialization time. I currently have over 200 ATR's on the CF card I am using. Even on an XL/XE the computer finishes POST well before the SIO2IDE is ready, but its not as big an issue because all you have to do is hit reset and they will re-poll SIO and find it.

Yes, external power will certainly solve the problem if you don't want to use any of the options explained above. Just a lot of unnecessary wires. I've never had any problem with mine not recognizing a CF card. Did you make sure it was formatted as FAT or FAT32?

See post #120 - this thread. Or #121 where you quoted it in your own reply to it

Good Call Rybags! I just tried that and it works. I tried that with no luck before opening the thread, but if it works on yours then I'm going down the wrong track.... Probably my 800 then.... The secret is to start pressing reset BEFORE the boot is complete. If the boot isn't complete pressing reset DOES do a coldstart. Problem is, on mine at least, you have to press it quite a few times before SIO2IDE finishes initializing.

Good Call Rybags! I just tried that and it works.

The problem using SIO2IDE on the 800 is the delay while the SIO2IDE is initializing. Since you are powering it from the 800, it is not ready when the 800 tries to boot. Once the SIO2IDE is ready, you need to do a cold boot, which the 800 reset key doesn't do. If you are in BASIC you can type X=USR(58487) once the SIO2IDE is ready and it should then boot from it. Without basic you would need to perform one of the hardware mods available to make the 800 RESET key do a Cold Start. I believe there is a way to connect the SIO2IDE's "Reset Out" line to the SIO so that the computer will wait for it to finish initialization before the computer boots, but I've not tried this myself.

I guess you didn't look very hard. http://www.atarimax.com/sio2pc/documentation/usbintro.html

One for me

Yes, using QMEG with SIO /A I'm still getting the hi-speed SIO from the QMEG code and save the memory that the SDX routines would use. You probably lose some of the SDX extras like the MAP command, but QMEG and the MIO give me plenty of flexibility so I don't think I'll miss that.

Thanks trub! That's what I was missing. Works great....

I don't really 'need' anything from it, but it does have a lot of nice features. I was hoping to save some memory by using DEVICE SIO /A and using QMEG's built in hi speed SIO routines.

Can anyone tell me how to get SpartaDOS X 4.42 (1MP Maxflash version), QMEG+OS 4.04 and an ICD MIO to work together. I can get any combination of two of these working fine, but with all three together I can never get it to boot into spartados X. It always tries to boot to D1: instead. If I try to jump to the cart from the QMEG menu I get garbage or a blank screen with the cursor in the upper left and it locks up.

I'll take one.

Here's a thread about some problems encountered building this mod and some changes taht were necessary to make it work. http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?s...p;hl=1200xl+pbi