Haas 1996 VF3 Floppy tempermental

CAD/CAM/CNC
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Any one have experience with replacing the floppy drive on an older Haas? Is it as simple as just replacing it with an Ebay cheapo? I’m having alarms that disc is not in drive, after repetitive tries it will read it but I’m getting tired of the run around getting the file loaded

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We are using adaptor - shoplink flash 2.
Easy to connect just plug into rs232 port.
http://www.highlanddnc.com

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I have that on my want list :slight_smile: still looking to fix the issue at hand

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I have just recently fixed such an issue on an older Haas. We did try to change the drive first, but the machine was just messing with us and still was not working.
Then I bought the eBay USB-Floppy emulator. Works flawlessly. You do however need to format the flashdrive you are using to Floppy format. Meaning that you have let’s say a 2GB drive that has 100 Floppy images/folder on it.
However for ease of use I just used one of them, Floppy0.
Never found out why the Floppy drive didn’t want to read Floppys.

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Thanks for the input, I just looked at what brand is in the machine and bought one of the same make and model as what the Haas came with, hoping it fixes it, down the road I will probably go with the shoplink when I have some $

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I want to try this, was there a brand name on the one you got?

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Any one of these should work.

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Cool, got one coming, will install this weekend, Thanks

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So you’ll be ready…likely the flash drives you have on hand are large, these (at least mine does) suggest 4gb or less.

You’ll never look back, they are not much faster then a floppy but Ive used mine for a number of years with out a hitch.
I have a few extra cases of 3.5 floppies for sale if any one is in need, Memorex I believe.

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One thing to note on this kind of emulator.

It does not work with just plugging any flashdrive in.
The flashdrive needs to be formatted into FLOPPY format. Information and software on the following link.
http://www.ipcas.com/support/usb-floppy-emulation-download.html

You can try to use without formatting, and it might work. But I found that 1 out of 5 flashdrives worked that way.
If you have any questions, PM me. I have about 4 months of using this kind emulator, before my new VF3SS was delivered.

I used a 4GB Kingston drive.