- How did you install the Scuamon 3.4 EPROMS (Did you do the PCB mod on the sorcerer motherboard or did you lift the PIN on the 2716 and jumper to +5v) ?
No mod needed as my Sorcerer has a special interface that already uses a 2732 (as 1E) EPROM and another one in the Sorcerer motherboard. This allows for 8KB ROM shared between monitor 1.3b and monitor 1.0. One of my problems has been to replace these EPROMs with the right "combo" between halves of SCUAMON and monitor 1.0. Also, I needed to patch some 2764 EPROMs as I didn't have 2732 in my stack.
Did you need to jumper the NMI trace on the Sorcerer 50 pin edge connector (per the Dreamdisk V2 manual) ?
Yes, my Sorcerer needed a little wire between the expansion pin 6 and its nearest pad.
How did you perform the alignment on the Dreamdisk controller? (as much detail as possible).
1) Connect all, cables and power to FDC and floppy
2) Check test jumper JP1 is open
3) Turn on FDC and floppy
4) Turn on Sorcerer
5) Close test jumper
6) Using an oscilloscope and turning R5, try to get a pulse of 500ns measured over TG43. Ground can be easily found in the right leg of D1 (closest to U6)
7) Now, measuring over DIRC and turning C4, try to get a frequency of 250Khz.
8) Close test jumper and restart all again.
How did you configure the gotek drive with the Dreamdisk Image i.e. Flashfloppy configuration etc ?
No configuration needed. Saved the dsk files in a pendrive and selected the masterdisk to boot right after the Sorcerer is turned on.
