Zenith z-200 360k floppy drive not working

[RadRacer203]

I got my Zenith z-200 put together last night and all seems to be good except the 360k drive I have in it isn't working and I can't figure out why. I have a known good drive that came out of my Compaq Portable after it died as the B drive, an Epson 1.44mb drive as A, and I've been through 3 different controllers with the same issue each time. The computer will boot and read/write the 1.44mb drive fine but throws an error whenever it tries to read the 360k. The one thing I haven't changed is the cable, but it was in the machine when I got it, presumably put away working.

[Stone]

Try running the 360K drive as the only drive in the system.

[RadRacer203]

Try running the 360K drive as the only drive in the system.

I'll try that, and maybe a different cable. It's kind of weird because I can choose the 1.44 and 360k in the bios so it should support it

[RadRacer203]

Tried a different cable, different card, and same problem. I just have no idea... Maybe the jumpers on the drive? It worked fine in a Compaq Portable though

[Chuckster_in_Jax]

Did that floppy come with your computer?

I remember something about a trace having to be cut on some floppy drives in order for them to work with certain controllers.

[Chuckster_in_Jax]

Found it. It's in the Z-200 Owners manual section page B.12.

If you don't have the manual you can get it here: http://www.mediafire.com/folder/xpuc...mlyjnzw/shared

May want some input from a floppy guru before you start cutting traces though.

[RadRacer203]

I'll check it out, that would make sense. It's not the original drive so it might need something to work.

[RadRacer203]

Found it. It's in the Z-200 Owners manual section page B.12.

If you don't have the manual you can get it here: http://www.mediafire.com/folder/xpuc...mlyjnzw/shared

May want some input from a floppy guru before you start cutting traces though.

Seems like the owners manual doesn't appear to open. Fortunately I do have an original copy but the diagnostic disk images don't seem to want to write in imagedisk

[Chuckster_in_Jax]

Seems like the owners manual doesn't appear to open. Fortunately I do have an original copy but the diagnostic disk images don't seem to want to write in imagedisk

I just downloaded the zip file and it opened OK and Acrobat opened the Owners manual OK.

Don't have a machine setup to check the disk image.

[Stone]

Seems like the owners manual doesn't appear to open. Fortunately I do have an original copy but the diagnostic disk images don't seem to want to write in imagedisk

The images opened fine in WinImage. Imagedisk works with IMD files.