10-11-2018, 10:50 AM
It is powered by the PC's power supply, which is a fairly hefty supply. That's an interesting idea though, so I tried it with an external power brick. Same deal. Also tried it with a different computer. Same results. That also rules out some suspicions I had about the USB ports.
Of course dirty heads were the first thing I thought of. I've been at it multiple times with my cleaner disk, as well as gave it a q-tip rub down for good measure. I also verified that it worked normally when connected to a PC FDC - it formats/reads/writes perfectly, and tried another FD-55GFR from a different system, with the same results. The SCP seems to read disk images fine.
It does occur to me that whatever this issue is could be related to why I can't properly write write-spliced disks. Until just recently I have mainly just been reading disk images.
Would exact drive speed have anything to do with it? I did notice the drive actually reports around 361RPM, but there is no way to adjust that on this drive model.
Of course dirty heads were the first thing I thought of. I've been at it multiple times with my cleaner disk, as well as gave it a q-tip rub down for good measure. I also verified that it worked normally when connected to a PC FDC - it formats/reads/writes perfectly, and tried another FD-55GFR from a different system, with the same results. The SCP seems to read disk images fine.
It does occur to me that whatever this issue is could be related to why I can't properly write write-spliced disks. Until just recently I have mainly just been reading disk images.
Would exact drive speed have anything to do with it? I did notice the drive actually reports around 361RPM, but there is no way to adjust that on this drive model.