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Thank you for the information, I certainly appreciate it and that's great to know. No worries about shipping, hopefully I'll find one nearby one day. BTW, I think the "ReadLisa" application is supposed to let you read text from inside certain LisaWrite and similar office application documents...

Wow, that's great! (y) I wonder if mine has deleted files on it, but maybe not. I don't have a Gesswein's MFM emulator, and it's a bit of an expensive purchase to try it just for this project. Did you need to configure the emulator in a certain way to read the disk? That's great it was able to...

Ah, got it! Sorry I may have misunderstood. You are in no danger to reflash firmware files. Even if it's not 100% compatible, I haven't harmed any of my decides by flashing "incorrect" firmware to it. I simply re-try another. Since at least your device has worked with one of them before, there...

Hi Federico, thanks for posting. As explained in a recent post above, the serial number lookup tool I made was sourced from the data on Kodak's (now offline as of mid-2024) firmware update website. It's quite simple in it's function. Similar to the Kodak site, it contained a long, long list of...

Thanks for the feedback. The firmware lookup took is based on the principal of the now offline Kodak firmware update site. It used serial numbers to determine which model the firmware should work. However, Kodak removed this website, so a lot of guesswork is involved for units beyond the serial...

I was shocked it was just the cable, I had a gut feeling the drive was okay, but this finally proved it! 😅 The software has no ability to park the heads it seems (at least from what I see in the menus). The drive appears to retract the heads away from the drive as part of the power down...

It freakin' WORKS! :p Woo-hoo!🎉 Huge thanks to @snuci for sharing the cable pinout. I created my own crude cable, and inserted the MacDrive 2.3 boot floppy... and my Macintosh 512K booted from the floppy, and then accessed the hard drive! I was able to successfully backup the entire drive. Only...

Awesome! My ROM appears to be newer (1.7 instead of 1.2). I think the RAM is used for the print spooling feature too. I've attache both of my ROMs, one was on the "power" board (with the M68008) and the other on the "data" board with the Z80. They're attached to this post. Also, I'll be...

THANK YOU @snuci for your reply and sharing your knowledge! 🎉 If you need any help with the power supply, I'm happy to take photos of mine. Mine has two RIFA caps inside, and I was able to replace them with the same type and value I used in a Mac 128/512/Plus analog board. I was super curious...

The thought is, that this board converts the drive to SASI/SCSI (at some point), the pinout of the 50-pin cable seems to confirm that. So that's one avenue to explore. At least nothing exploded... 😅 The good news is the drive head is moving! If I manually move the head a bit out of the parked...

I’m assuming the drive was used at some point in time - and hoping there’s data on it. I’m mainly curious to see what goodies are on it versus using the blasted thing as a new drive, but I guess that can be plan B. 😅 Since one of the boards seems to be connected via SASI/SCSI, I’m going to...

Correct, sorry for not stating that above. So currently, I get the same error if 1) the drive is plugged in and turned on with a straight serial cable connected to the modem port. 2) the same (but with the HD removed from the case), or 3) with nothing plugged into any serial port. I'm also...

Well, with the HD removed from the enclosure, but everything else plugged in, I get the same error about the drive not being recognized. I reseated a bunch of chips (but not all) and cleaned a lot of the edge connectors. The drive spins up, but I don’t see any head movement… maybe the sensor...

I only took a quick peek, but it looked like copper, similar to this "clock" someone made and posted on eBay of the same model drive. :oops:

Thanks David, I'm currently performing a number of those steps today. I didn't think of testing the enclosure without the drive connected, that's a good idea. I'll do that. (y) I'll report back and keep everyone posted. Here are some more photos of the boards... featuring a Z80 and a 68000...