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Re: Apple floppy adaptor. A little update



Tristan Mumford wrote:
Michael J. Mahon wrote:


Tristan Mumford wrote:

G'day!

Today I had a feeling, which I acted upon. I wondered if the little short
the adaptor board had didn't cause more damage than I thought. It seems
it may well have.

Just to find out, the Atlas 8 was plugged in to do a few tests. It can
read perfectly, as expected. However trying to format a disk results in
the same failure to write I have been seeing.

Based on the assumption* that the short was from -12v to WREQ I traced
the lines to what seems to be an open-collector 74LS06 (M53206P) on the
controller.

Usually, it's an 'LS05--but still an OC inverter.


So, should I replace it with an '06 or an '05?

Either should be fine--it was designed to be a '05--and it's just
driving a 1K pullup to +5v in the drive.  (BTW, since you're
intercepting it, you need to pull it up to +5v, too.)

Holding my amazing LED and resistor logic probe on the WREQ line and
attempting to perform a write (ProDOS format) results in no difference in
the logic high state.

-snip-

One odd thing to note is the IC in question doesn't seem to have any
continuity between +5 and the signal line (when not powered) as I would
have thought for this problem.


* Visually it looked like a solderbridge was between WREQ and -12v. Also
that was where I had just done an alteration to add a line to monitor
WREQ to know when to use the disk writing code in the uC. So it seems
logical that this was the issue.

If it's an open collector output, then I wouldn't expect any
connection with +5.  The only +5 it sees is from an external
pullup.

More likely, it's lost its ability to pull the line *down*, because
its output transistor/metal is blown.


I see. Oh well hopefully the presumed cause is correct and it's only one
commodity IC to replace.

That's probably all it is--TTL ICs do a good job of clamping voltages
to within +5v and 0v.

-michael

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