Roland RA-95 - dEr error
andr229k opened this issue · 7 comments
I found a Roland RA-95 in a garage-sale and thought that it could be fun to give a try with Flashfloppy. The original drive is a Chinon FZ-357 [Commonly used for Amiga device too] and was configured as:
I would therefore conclude the correct jumper setting as S0. Here there is also a jumper on MM, I guess that related to motor?
I first tried to see how the device normally behave, when you turn on the RA-95 you can see that the LED is constantly on and I inserted a random disk and it gives me the error “dEr”, which means “Disk is protected”, so I execute a format-process on RA-95 and then it runs normal.
Environment:
Roland RA-95 with USB Floppy Emulator installed and Flashfloppy 3.40. Jumper setting on S0 due to information above from original drive. Interface = Shugart
Symptoms:
RA-95 pushed “dEr” error on screen as USB-stick with empty disk generated with HxC Floppy Emulator is inserted. Try to run the format procedure, experience that it randomly stops the formatting-procedure and shows “dEr”.
Diagnose:
• The LED on the Gotek was constantly on, which was normal behaviour from the normal floppy drive too.
• That I’m able to initiate the format procedure, means that I’m on the right path.
Actions:
• I tried both Shugart, IBMPC and JC. I found Shugart best behaving.
• Generated a log [Attached]from a formatting attempt, where it manged to get to track 10.
• After a few attempts I was able to successfully format an empty disk [attached].
Any suggestions or tweaks?
Probably best trying an IMG file from HxC. Normally Roland is just a standard 730k or 1M44 track layout.
Probably best trying an IMG file from HxC. Normally Roland is just a standard 730k or 1M44 track layout.
RA-95 dont really get into the formating process with .IMG compared to .HFE format, which is weird. I have attached the logs, which it provided for 2 attempts.
FFLOG 1.44 MB IMG 2nd try.TXT
FFLOG 1.44 MB IMG.TXT
Attach an HFE that you have tried to format on this device.
Oh is that what you already attached in the OP?
Oh is that what you already attached in the OP?
Yes, but you need to rename the extension to .HFE as Github dont allow .HFE as extention.
The format is PC 720k. So just use a 720k IMG file and format that. Or here is the IMG version of the formatted HFE that you posted originally:
a.img.zip
Interface as "jppc-hdout" did the trick, thank you!