ToToTEK.COM

bigjohn6 · Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 11:47 pm Post subject: multi game hunter floppy drive

i have tried to replace the floppy drive in my multi game hunter but after trying 3 different standard atapi drives all i get is disk drive error displayed...anybody know why? was a special type of floppy drive used or am i doing something wrong?....regards....john

kyuusaku · Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 941 Location: .ma.us

The MGH required a special twisted floppy ribbon and or a specific obsolete disk mode. You'll need a drive with manually settable jumpers and you'll need to find the rest of the info elsewhere, I don't know the rest :) Try forums.cherryroms.com.

bigjohn6 · Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2004 8:50 pm Post subject: replacement floppy drive in mgh

thanks for the info, was just interested if there was any way i could fit a new replacement

Arakon · Joined: 23 Jul 2003 Posts: 4

some drives have a jumper to set them to A and B modes.. I was able to replace the drive with a different one that had those jumpers.
it might also be possibly to swap some wires of the built in ribbon cable to allow it to use unmodified/switched drives.

bigjohn6 · Posted: Sun May 02, 2004 5:10 pm Post subject: multi game hunter floppy drive

thanks arakon,yes...its seems floppy drive needs to have jumpers which are either marked a or b mode...or...ds0 or ds1 mode and need to be correctly set for b/u unit to recognise it. have got friend in the computer trade looking for a couple for me! they were used in 3086 pc era so he tells me......many thanks again...john