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Subbed, excellent stuff!

A dead RTC shouldn't stop the machine booting. Just power-on with DEL. Then at least you could waggle the mouse about or try the bit of BASIC as above. If there's no response on either machine, that's when I'd guess something goofed with the mouse :( With no RTC it boots only to Supervisor mode, so...

You say you reset the CMOS and then replaced the battery, shouldn't that be the other way around?

Just a few thoughts;
When you replaced the CMOS battery, did you reset/clear the CMOS? If not, I'd try that, and then reconfigure.
To check the HDD, right click on HardDisc4 and select Verify, see if you get any errors

Same here, I need to make some space!

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Can I have a full set please Dave?

Money sent!

Silly question possibly, but have you cleaned the drive heads?

You could just add a pair of 2 pin headers (or a single 4 pin) to the board. Then attach a couple of wires with momentary contact switches on them?
This would preserve real estate on the board and allow you to add the buttons as an option.

Very nice and definitely needed. Does this work on any Arc with a standard podule slot?

Wouldn't touch one with a barge pole. They are always listening and aren't overly secure.

It's disc of course. Terry Pratchett would spin in his grave if you mentioned his Diskworld Novels!

If anyone decides to do a run of built boards, I'd be interested. Regrettably the soldering level required is beyond my skill level.

It sounds like a partial drive failure to me, I've had a similar fault on an SSD (In a PC) in the past, where I could only read from it.
Writes appeared to work, but when I went back and looked, all the changes had reverted.

Umm.. silly question but,
If it's readable can't you just copy off the data and re-format? Or won't it format either?

I can't see an IDEFSDiscs entry in the screenshot of the *Status output, so maybe that's part of the problem.
Edit: I'm not sure "Drive" needs to be set to 4 either, since IDEFSDrive is already set to 4.

I'm not very familiar with these cards, but normally you need to configure the number of drives for each file system. I'm assuming the Watford Electronics file system is IDEFS, so you would need to specify the number of drives for it. This could be the 'IDE Discs' entry, which is set to 0, but I cou...

Could you do a *status and post the results?

Also ensure that the drive select jumper on your CF adapter is set to Master.

Edit 2: Just looking at your photos, where is the CF adapter getting it's power from?

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Sat Apr 27, 2019 1:49 pm

JonC wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 27, 2019 1:35 pm

I'm probably going to need some of these soon, which did you order?

I got this one Jon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00HJUDHV8/
There's cheaper ones on ebay, but I didn't want to wait!

Cheers for that, at least I know they work!

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Sat Apr 27, 2019 12:28 pm

Had to buy a 9 pin to 15 pin VGA adapter,

I'm probably going to need some of these soon, which did you order?

Hi Ken If I can be "right on the deadline" I would like to purchase one of your boards. Is postage about GBP15 to Australia still OK? Can't message you yet. Perhaps an Admin can enable me? Cheers Rod Just use the Contact Us button at the bottom of the page and an Admin should be able to d...

Seems to be one of these; https://www.ebay.ca/itm/254154458131?ul_noapp=true Not sure, but there looks to be another Internal SCSI header on the Podule itself, so it may be possible to attach a more 'standard' SCSI drive. Can you remove the drive and/or cable so we can see more of the podule? Edited...

Bit confused, SCSI and IDE are two different standards and aren't interchangeable.
Are you sure it's not a 50 pin scsi drive you have?

I have done some experimenting and have attached three files here: 1) The original logo as a PNG. 2) The logo with a transparent background instead of black. As I thought, this doesn't look great. 3) As above, but with a black outline around the edges. This is better but still not ideal. 4) A rearr...

Coulod you put me down for a couple if kits if there's any left? Cheers!

As a matter of interest, have you reset the CMOS?
It could be a corrupt CMOS setting that's sending out something your monitor doesn't understand.

Could you put me down for 2 please Ian?

You could put all the older connectors on an optional board to maintain backwards compatibility.

Maybe post a few pictures of the board and how you've connected things up?

Yep, you're probably better off with a glue gun and insulating the side of the Gotek board facing the main board with something non-conductive.