Tales of Weird Stuff | DaynaFile SCSI floppy drive deep dive! @TalesofWeirdStuff | Uploaded August 2021 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Deep dive into the depths of the DaynaFile SCSI floppy drive! I disassemble, examine, and attempt to use the DaynaFile drive. It doesn't go as well as I had hoped, but it appears that the drive is working as well as it ever would have. It's just not a very compatible device. That's something, anyway.
00:00 Abrupt beginning of the video
09:16 Jumpers on the disk drive
10:30 Good view of the adapter board
11:33 Signs of life?
19:20 A shoddy power connector
24:04 More signs of life...
25:34 Bad termination
27:31 Good termination
29:06 Linux is ANGRY!
32:04 Epilogue
There is a web page that has some valuable information about these drives. It has links to the manual and the MacOS drivers. I only wish I had found this before I started the project.
antique-engine.ns.ca/mac/dayna/dayna.html
The e-mail address listed on that page does not seem to be valid any longer. For anyone who is curious, my device has the following setting:
Bay location: top
Drive connector J2: 360 kb-5.25
Drive connector J3: XXX
J4: 3-4, 5-6, 7-9, 8-10, 11-12
J5: None
J6: 1
J9: 7
J10: Jumped
With the exception of J6, this is identical to the single 1.2MB drive configuration.
The power supply that people say works with this drive is the Elpac WM220-1. To make my adapter, I connected DIN pin 3 to 5v, pin 5 to 12v, and pin 2 to ground. This seemed to work well enough.
Deep dive into the depths of the DaynaFile SCSI floppy drive! I disassemble, examine, and attempt to use the DaynaFile drive. It doesn't go as well as I had hoped, but it appears that the drive is working as well as it ever would have. It's just not a very compatible device. That's something, anyway.
00:00 Abrupt beginning of the video
09:16 Jumpers on the disk drive
10:30 Good view of the adapter board
11:33 Signs of life?
19:20 A shoddy power connector
24:04 More signs of life...
25:34 Bad termination
27:31 Good termination
29:06 Linux is ANGRY!
32:04 Epilogue
There is a web page that has some valuable information about these drives. It has links to the manual and the MacOS drivers. I only wish I had found this before I started the project.
antique-engine.ns.ca/mac/dayna/dayna.html
The e-mail address listed on that page does not seem to be valid any longer. For anyone who is curious, my device has the following setting:
Bay location: top
Drive connector J2: 360 kb-5.25
Drive connector J3: XXX
J4: 3-4, 5-6, 7-9, 8-10, 11-12
J5: None
J6: 1
J9: 7
J10: Jumped
With the exception of J6, this is identical to the single 1.2MB drive configuration.
The power supply that people say works with this drive is the Elpac WM220-1. To make my adapter, I connected DIN pin 3 to 5v, pin 5 to 12v, and pin 2 to ground. This seemed to work well enough.
