Indus GT - question

[Binarygeek]

All the Indus drives I have seen, (and I have seen quite a few), have a 2732 EPROM. I have never seen a mask ROM in one.

The Atari 1050 comes with four jumpers, and they are set depending if the drive has an ROM or EPROM. I meant to say that the Indus does not have this jumper arrangement.

[MrMartian]

When I open up my Indus to take some pictures of my power adapter hack, I will also try swapping out the socket and EPROM to see if it just works with a 28 pin chip.... Maybe I should get to that today!

[Guest]

well well well

all was fine. then after taking it apart to clean the plexi front panel

 

the exact same fault is BACK !!!!

 

it's like this:

power on, it seeks...goes to track 39 and stays there

no matter what i do it times out

 

however, if i boot with the disk in it seems go to menu/dos etc....but nothing after that

[Guest]

this is getting freakier and freakier

it's looking more and more like a power issue

 

so if the connector is "tight" in the socket all is well

but even a bit of slackness or movement and the G5 reappears and it struggles

 

at least i can see where i need to be looking

[MrMartian]

Hang on... There's a chance if it thinks a button is held in on the front panel, it will lock up in a loop. I don't remember if there's a way to unplug the front panel buttons...

[Guest]

cheers...will look into this