Hello guys! Anyone have an marty disk drive for sale or where I can found one? Maybe a similar disk drive that works fine on marty The problem with my disk drive is that disks doesn't work, there's a noise from drive but the light doesn't turns on. Maybe anyone with same problem can help and maybe the problem is easy to repair Thanks and help :thumbsup:
Thanks for solution. You already made this change? pc fdd belt fit exactly in fm towns marty fdd? I will apreciate if you reply again and thanks again :icon_bigg
From my experience, not all floppy drives use the same belt...but if open the drive, you should be able to take the drive out and measure the one you have to find a replacement. I've never had to replace a Marty belt before...but I have had to do Atari drives...
Its pretty easy to replace a marty belt. I did one the other day and it works a treat. I've been trying to get hold of some spare drives but its proving tricky. Its a 3 mode drive (whatever that is). I've seen several old models but not the right one yet, and none that look suitable. On the case though. I've got loads of spare belts if you need any. They're good for msx too I'm told.
Thanks for replies Anyone can confirm if pc fdd have same belt of towns marty? Assembler? I'm thinking about buy a new pc fdd drive to change the marty belt Whelaa, I will want one of your belts, you got a pm
If you're going to try getting one from a PC floppy, don't buy a new one. Newer models are direct drive, and don't use belts. You'll need something incredibly old. I opened a Packard Bell computer from 1994...and its floppy didn't have a belt... so...look for a drive contemporary to the Marty.
:drool: Hey Arthur, if you need cheap floppy drives, you can get lots of them at that flea market in downtown (under the perimetral bridge). One day i went there and there were tons of old computer stuff.
Hey johnny, thanks for help I'm in deal whelaa, I will buy an belt from him, the problem is that I need a specific model from matsushita that produced marty drives
I'm about to do the same job myself. I have 2 Marty's...one with a bad FDD andone with a bad CD unit. Hopefully 2 hearts will beat as 1.... Sorry.
A thing to check with the cd part is that the little fold over tab bit on the lhs as you open it (top left of the cd lense portion, thw white wire coming out and ending in a black clip thing) is in place. Its this bit that tells the system the cd lid is closed. I got a free marty 2 a while back as it had no working cd drive. I noticed when I turned the system on it did actually show life very briefly. Opened it up, folded that tab over and had a free working marty!
Any more Marty drive belts? (Hi all), Wheelaa: dyou have any of those left? - my Marty floppy is no more (sent you a PM). Anyone else know of a source of these, or at least what the length of the drive belt is so I can look for another one? Many thanks for any help.
i've changed floppy belt on marty with elastic, the floppy motor run spinning fine but led doesn't turn on so it doesn't read floppies. Any solutions? Bye
Yeah, use a proper belt.. Normal elastic stretches too easily. Its also quite sticky so I imagine the wheels turn, the elastic sticks and the open bit expands slightly, then it unsticks and pings back..so you have more of a stop start motion than a fluid one. Sorry I never got back to you re the belt, very poor. I'll dig em out and pm later. (both of you even lol sorry)
