FD-505 floppy write protect LED

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Brian Sturk

Finally got around to hooking this up. It's a combined 5 1/4 and 3 1/2 drive.
I was getting errors trying to write saying disks were write protected when they
clearly aren't. Turns out the write protect LED was dead. I replaced it with
what I had lying around. It does light up now, but I think it's drawing too
much current or something because now I get a floppy fail (40) during POST.

Anyone have an idea of what type of LED I could replace it with?

thanks for any help,
~brian

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Previously Brian Sturk said:
Finally got around to hooking this up. It's a combined 5 1/4 and 3
1/2 drive. I was getting errors trying to write saying disks were
write protected when they clearly aren't. Turns out the write
protect LED was dead. I replaced it with what I had lying around.
It does light up now, but I think it's drawing too much current or
something because now I get a floppy fail (40) during POST.
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Thi must have another reason. The write protection is noch
chacked during post. And the LEF will have a series resistor
and can very likely not draw "too much current".
Anyone have an idea of what type of LED I could replace it with?
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IR.

Arno
 
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