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Floppy drives makes loud buzzing sound, no light. #133

Closed mryigitsen closed 8 years ago

mryigitsen commented 8 years ago

Hello everyone,

I finally started working on this project and I found out that 3 drives have the same problem: When I connect them to power supply, they all make loud buzzing sound and the activity LED doesn't light up. I would be glad if you could help me.

Thanks.

Sammy1Am commented 8 years ago

Hi there! What other connections do you have on the floppy drives? The LED shouldn't light up when you only connect power anyway, but neither should the drives make buzzing sounds :P On May 6, 2016 09:46, "yigitsen1" notifications@github.com wrote:

Hello everyone,

I finally started working on this project and I found out that 3 drives have the same problem: When I connect them to power supply, they all make loud buzzing sound and the activity LED doesn't light up. I would be glad if you could help me.

Thanks.

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mryigitsen commented 8 years ago

I soldered 11 and 12 as drive selection, 17 and 19 as ground, 18 and 20 for step and direction pins.

Sammy1Am commented 8 years ago

If the LED isn't an "activity" LED so much as a "drive-selected" LED. If you connect power and only the drive selection pins, the LED should usually come on. You might try using 13/14 for the select pins as well to see if those will get the LED to light.

After you've got the LED lit with power, then you can move on to connecting up the step and direction pins, which I think you have backward. 18 is the direction pin, and 20 is the step pin. This is probably my fault if you followed the video tutorial because it's backward in my graphic.

mryigitsen commented 8 years ago

I wrote them probably wrong, as I didn't care, but I'Ve solved it. Thanks!