Diag cart is definitely necessary, and vital for this sort of stuff. I have a decent FDD collection too, as most of my STs are now using Gotek, plus I had some old PC drives around. I have a bench PC that is on the verge of getting a floppy fitted so I can run FloImg on it and retire my Win2K laptop.atari030 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 23, 2020 2:50 pm I changed it over to a new TEAC as the SMD was stripped from a PC a few years ago and a tad grotty. I have a decent collection of floppy drives because I knew this day was coming and I grabbed as many from work as I could. It is all GALled (002) up for 1.44. No AJAX, but the 02-02 hasn't missed a beat with the new drive.
I've still got some problems to iron out, looks like DMA. C398789-001A PLCC type is flakey. I will have to recap the whole shooting match first, I think. Changing one cap can't be a coincidence. I will recap, and then hopefully post will settle down so I can sort a diag cart out.
Must admit, I've been very lucky, my MSTE never misses a beat and the original floppy and CosmosEx get along just fine.