[Brian L]

Try typing in the parameters by hand. I could never get the floppy drive to work reliably.

[dlenardu]

I have never tried to enter them by hand. I will have to search and see if I even have the paper documents for them. That being said, I would still need to get the floppy working so I can load some of my programs.

[Brian L]

Use your RS232 comm port and hook up a computer direct... can't hardly believe anybody still messes about with floppies.

I have never tried to enter them by hand. I will have to search and see if I even have the paper documents for them. That being said, I would still need to get the floppy working so I can load some of my programs.

[dlenardu]

Use your RS232 comm port and hook up a computer direct... can't hardly believe anybody still messes about with floppies.

I have never been able to get the RS232 port to communicate with my computer. Always had to use the floppies

[moldcore]

Use your RS232 comm port and hook up a computer direct... can't hardly believe anybody still messes about with floppies.

Only time I tried to use the RS232 com port it was painfully slow. With RS232, speed was measured in K's per minute not MB per seconds like today standards. Try that when cutting 3D, sucks big time. I've been using USB the last few years an it's fine. Not as good has the Ethernet that I was using but it can no longer connect to my Win 10 computer. The USB will download in a few seconds for a 1 meg file then you can run from the machine RAM.

[dlenardu]

I've been using USB the last few years an it's fine. Not as good has the Ethernet that I was using but it can no longer connect to my Win 10 computer. The USB will download in a few seconds for a 1 meg file then you can run from the machine RAM.

Moldcore, Are you using a usb floppy emulator? I know sportybob offers one on the SBC upgrade and I am looking at going to it when I get the chance to send him my system.

On another note, I finally got back into the CMOS. The only way I was able to get back to the CMOS was to unplug the battery. I'm not sure that I did anything different this time but I was able to get it to read the floppy drive so thanks to Machinehop5 for suggesting to go back to the CMOS. I still can not get it to boot up automatically.

Is there another way to enter the CMOS without unplugging the battery?

[rl49]

Get an AT keyboard and plug into motherboard and hit Del key when boot screen comes up.

Ron

[moldcore]

Moldcore, Are you using a usb floppy emulator? I know sportybob offers one on the SBC upgrade and I am looking at going to it when I get the chance to send him my system.

Yes it's an emulator. You'll have to download a software that re-formats USB thumb drives to 1.44 MB to use it. sportybob should be able to help you with that. Milltronics did my SBC upgrade years ago and added Ethernet.