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rubber_jonnie wrote: 19 Nov 2023 10:46 Your non-working Ajax (The bottom one) could be genuine, just dead, where did you source it from?

HigashiJun wrote: 19 Nov 2023 12:02

rubber_jonnie wrote: 19 Nov 2023 10:46 Your non-working Ajax (The bottom one) could be genuine, just dead, where did you source it from?

From Ebay...

Even if the seller was not from China, the stuff he's selling could be.

HigashiJun wrote: 02 Dec 2023 03:54 While waiting for the A5000 mouse (and a solder tip for a repair), I worked a bit on my A3000.


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The ZIDEFS IDE podule is fitted on top of the MIDI podule.

There is a link from pin 10 of IC33 to pin 3 of the SK3 connector, in order to make 2 podules work at the same time.

But when I boot the machine, only podule one (MIDI) is recognised.

Will have to investigate more and check on the Stardot forum...

rubber_jonnie wrote: 02 Dec 2023 10:51 Quite different to the insides of the A5000, much less room. Took me a while to figure out which module was which as the blend in together.

HigashiJun wrote: 03 Dec 2023 05:19 I cried victory too soon...

Even if I managed to format a 1.6MB floppy without any issues, the HDADFS module seems to be unstable...

I powered-off my computer and launched the previously created module again, but when trying to access the menu, it freezes.

I will check again when I will have my ZIDEFS IDE fitted back again, in order to launch automatically HDADFS from the !Boot folder.

:(

rubber_jonnie wrote: 03 Dec 2023 10:15 I hate it when that happens! Could it be the FDD controller IC? Which one did you use in the end?