You may find more details on the 9301-6 in the FDD drive information on the group site where you will also find complete details and Gerber files and parts lists for making these boards (anyone want to volunteer to get some boards made for this part of the project?)
These were also Citizen drives (Type V1DA-30A).You will need the 9301-6 adapter board and s short FFC/FPC cable to use the USB emulator.Ĥ.If there is enough interest I can have some of these adapter boards manufactured and make it an option for the emulator kit. Some older 93XX scopes used a drive that had a 26 pin IDC (arranged as two rows of 13 pins spaced 0.1 inches apart). If you do not have this board see the files section of the group for details on making them. Later scopes (LC/WR/WP) do not need this board as the scope processor board already has a 26-pin FPC/FFC female connector on board.
#Dane elec usb 1gb series#
I believe that this was an option on the 9300 series but was standard with later series(check your scope status screen for the FD01 option).Ģ.Your scope should have the Citizen WD1 floppy drive (has the 26 pin FFC/FPC white flat cable).ģ.Your scope must have the 9301-6 IDC to FPC adapter board (mounted under the drive in the top cover of the scope. They are about $5.00 at your local K-Martīoth of the above are limitations of the floppy interface (If we had a real USB interface for these scopes we would not have this problem).Ĭurrently used Citizen drives go for about 75.00 on ebay and you know that they will eventually fail as even the rubbed drive belts in NOS (New-Old-Stock) drives will eventually dry-rot sitting on the shelf.ġ.Your scope must have the floppy option installed so that you will have the required floppy disk controller card. I have had great success with Dane-Elec 1GB sticks. USB sticks as small as 32MB have been used (that is the smallest one I have). The USB stick will not hold any more data than the original 1.44MB floppy and must be dedicated to emulator use as it gets formatted to 1.44MB FAT 12 capacity. The USB floppy emulator will not be any faster in data storage speed.Ģ. There are only one or two cons that I can think of:ġ.
The pros to this are many and obvious to tech people like us. Unplug and remove the old floppy, bolt the new emulator one in place, insert a blank memory stick, format the stick using the scope utilities and you are ready to go. What I am proposing is essentially a plug and play device.
At present I do not have any plans to market the device on ebay or outside of this group. The more people that are interested the better the cost will be. WHEN MORE INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE I WILL MAKE IT KNOWN ON THE GROUP SITE FIRST. IF YOU HAVE AN INTEREST IN PURCHASE OF ONE OR MORE EMULATORS PLEASE LET ME KNOW ASAP ON THE GROUP SITE. The unit will be mounted in s sturdy frame (probably metal) that will fit the existing drive mounting hole locations. In addition, it is proposed that the unit will have custom overlays so it will look attractive in the scope front panel, just as if it came from the factory that way. The unit I am describing here is NOT currently available for sale anywhere, as it has custom firmware developed for this application.For now I am calling the device "The Flopulator" a contraction of the words Floppy and Emulator. Besides the USB stick interface is the most prevalent one in use today. I even considered trying one that stores on SD card instead of USB but I wanted a simple USB solution that would not require one to hack and make special cables or mounts for the unit. I have invested in, and tried many of the e-bay USB floppy emulators without success. No more floppy to wear out and you now have easy data transfer to and from a PC. My solution is to do away with the floppy drive entirely and replace it with a drop in floppy emulator that plugs in exactly the same as the current drive except that it stores the data on a USB stick. As far as I know Citizen was the only company to offer these 11mm height floppy disk drives last made in 2001. I do know that one can modify certain non belt driven drives other than Citizen to work, but this just puts off the inevitable failure of yet another floppy drive. These belts are unobtainable and even if you could get them, replacement would not be easy. These drives typically fail with broken belts. For some time now, your moderator has been working on a solution to replace the aging Citizen W1D series 11mm height floppy drives used in the 93XX/LC/WR1/WR2/WP series oscilloscopes.
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