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From: piner@pur-phy.UUCP (Richard Piner)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Teac floppy disk drive: minor warning.
Message-ID: <1144@pur-phy.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Jan-84 17:09:59 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 13 17:09:59 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Jan-84 00:01:58 EST
Organization: Purdue University Physics Dept.
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I just got in a couple of new Teac slim-line floppies this
week and I had a minor problem with them. It seems that Teac
has made some changes in the controller board. The new drives
work correctly on my MAX-80 and old TRS-80, but not on the
LNW-80. The older drives worked correctly on all three machines.
The new drives are using line #34 as a "ready" signal. On TRS-80
(model one) and the MAX this line is not connected, so no
problem. But on the LNW, line #34 is connected to line #32. I
solved the problem by putting a piece of electrical tape over
the edge connector so line #34 doesn't make contact. The drives
work fine now. I will check to see if there is a way to fix this
with strap options when the tech manual gets here, but meanwhile,
LNW-80 owners should know that the new Teac drives won't work
on their machines. Other than this problem, I have had very good
luck with the Teac drives. They are cheap, fast, and reliable.

					Rich Piner
					Purdue Physics Dept.