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Just a little trick I picked up while repairing my Dragon32 a couple of times was to type the commands MOTOR ON and MOTOR OFF in too see if the relay clicked on and off. If it does you know that Basic is up and running and responding. In my case it turned out to be a faulty 6847 VGD chip. It was cau...

Excellent I'll send you a PM with my address and make the payment.

Standard post to New Zealand?

Thanks and great work BTW.

Thanks. The interface works fine with my HxC. And at least I know the Dragon drive works.

OK This is interesting. Before putting this aside for another day I decided to try it with my Dragon 64 and it works perfectly. Now I'm happy the drive is going (especially as I got it for next to nothing) and confused that it won't work with my Dragon32. Edit Hmm well it was working with the 64. wr...

Thanks,

I have tried with another single sided drive and a 3.5" drive and get the same result.

So how do I configure the Zaxxon controller?

I recently acquired a Dragon single disk drive and now have one of Zaxxon's interfaces to hook it up to my Dragon's. However as expected its not working correctly and a DSKINIT1,1,40 results in a ?RF ERROR. I can confirm the 5v and 12v lines are working fine and the disk actually spins and head move...

Looks like what my Dragon 32 had.

Turned out to be a faulty 6847P chip.

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That came up like new. Looks fantastic.

Hmm there is mention of it here http://archive.worldofdragon.org/index. ... r_Software

But so far I cannot find anything else about it.

Edit: Another interesting thing to note is the copyright date of 1991. Could explain the lack of information available.