[cyberbond]

I need the Floppy Drive, as that's the only way to reinstall the system software after having a bubble/cmos memory replacement.

However I have a chance to hold a Okuma Floppy Drive and took some photo on it.

I did tried to replace the original floppy drive with off-the-shelf PC floppy drive. As the circuit board consist of simple components and layout. I also notice that the different of floppy drive is just the jumpers next to the input power socket.

Any suggestion if I want to build another unit of this?

[Algirdas]

Any suggestion if I want to build another unit of this?
easy. Floppy drive must fit. Jumpers are for:
1. 780kB capacity <-> 1,44MB capacity
2. answer to "A" drive address <-> "B"
sometimes could be more jumpers
3. cable select
4. write protection harware or soft type
5. inversion of "drive select" signal
6. inversion of "ready" signal

[cyberbond]

Nice... have you tried to build one of those? I believe I have to go back to the junk for the floppy drive.

[mld]

We have a few of the floppy drives for CNC machines. Contact us direct at [email protected]

[calgarykevvy]

I don't know if this is of any help but: on my 700 control I once tried to copy a file with a name that began with the letter O. The control reported a floppy error but it was just that it didn't like the letter O.

I pulled the drive at that time and looked at using a PC drive. In my opinion there is no way to convert a PC drive. The drive is Okuma right down to the printed circuit board and the electrical interface has no resemblance to a standard PC drive.

Kev

[mld]

I don't know if this is of any help but: on my 700 control I once tried to copy a file with a name that began with the letter O. The control reported a floppy error but it was just that it didn't like the letter O.

I pulled the drive at that time and looked at using a PC drive. In my opinion there is no way to convert a PC drive. The drive is Okuma right down to the printed circuit board and the electrical interface has no resemblance to a standard PC drive.

Kev

Hi Kev, send me a direct email to the email below and I can maybe help you out on your CNC floppy drive.


MLD

[email protected]

[Kwalityenterpri]

Hi
Great News !! We have tested our floppy to usb emulator to successfully work on below Okuma Models
( Okuma Crown Lathe L1060 with an OSP-U10L control, Okuma 700L 7000L U100M and E100M ) . Priced at US$95+shipping each ( includes 1 preformatted 4 gb Kingston Flash drive, One year swap warranty ) .

[cncts11]

We have replacement floppy drives (we can also repair your floppy drive) and we have the floppy to USB retrofit, which works great. My email: [email protected]