Disk Drive Not Reading on Trinity

[chrisz1029]

I've been using a Korg Trinity Plus off & on for 10 years. I've recorded a lot of pieces of music and saved them to floppy disk.

I hadn't used the keyboard in almost a year, and when I fired it up to load a floppy disk, it kept spinning but said the disk was unformatted. I tried all my Trinity Floppy disks, all having the same problem. I clean out the disk drive thinking it might of just been dusty from not being used in so long, but no luck there.

I even tried a brand new floppy disk, and tried to format it using the Trinity Disk Drive, and still no luck. Does this mean my disk drive is shot? Or is there a simple fix to this?

[synthjoe]

Did 'cleaning' in you post involve the use of a head cleaning floppy disk? If not, I'd strongly advise to try it. Until you cannot format a fresh floppy, you should not expect it to read other disks.

[samriccijr]

Chrisz1029:

I just replaced my floppy drive last nite.

The drive motor would spin the belt but the belt slips on the wheel. I used a 1.4 floppy drive from a pc. I took the metal cover off the drive and carefully wiped the heads clean. Sony drives fall apart when you do this..... Put the metal cover back on...

Remove the bottom of the Trinity. Flip the unit so the floppy is to the top left.

Remove 5 screws (3 to the right and 2 to the left.) Have a magnet and tweezers ready because you will drop the screws into the body. Unplug the cables and lift the sled out. Unscrew the bezel and the sled. Put the newer floppy drive in sled. Connect cables and test before you put everything back together.

The Sony drives (that fell apart) did not work - but the one I robbed from an old pc works like a charm.

Sam, keeping the Trinity alive for another day....

[Defy]

Chrisz1029:

I just replaced my floppy drive last nite.

The drive motor would spin the belt but the belt slips on the wheel. I used a 1.4 floppy drive from a pc. I took the metal cover off the drive and carefully wiped the heads clean. Sony drives fall apart when you do this..... Put the metal cover back on...

Remove the bottom of the Trinity. Flip the unit so the floppy is to the top left.

Remove 5 screws (3 to the right and 2 to the left.) Have a magnet and tweezers ready because you will drop the screws into the body. Unplug the cables and lift the sled out. Unscrew the bezel and the sled. Put the newer floppy drive in sled. Connect cables and test before you put everything back together.

The Sony drives (that fell apart) did not work - but the one I robbed from an old pc works like a charm.

Sam, keeping the Trinity alive for another day....

I had the same problem. Orig. FDD in my TRI was Matsushita EME216KR model with the belt. Belt was problem / after years was not so flexible a finally is stretched /. I look for some replacement of FDD but I didnt know what type or model is compatible with Trinity. Todaay I can confirm that Samsung SFD-321B work with Trinity system right way. Loading, saving, disk format..... What is better that this Samsung hasn´t any belt.

[Vesa]

All my gear has been at the attic for like 15 years, brought them down one by one over a months time and today I was gonna load some Programs (downloaded PCG file saved to new/unopened pack with 1.44MB floppies via USB floppy drive): All the Trinity drive was doing was noise ! I guess there's a broken belt. Wouldn't even format, old/new 1.44 or old 720 floppies.

So I looked at eBay, found refurbished drives for £7 and £9, never used ones for £19, I ordered two of the £9 for a total of £32 incl shipping to Sweden. TRITON-Rack is only ~5 years newer, who knows when its drive fails.

Seller refurbished:

The item has been restored to working order by the eBay seller or a third party.
This means the item was inspected, cleaned, and repaired to full working order and is in excellent condition.
This item may or may not be in original packaging. See seller’s listing for full details.

[machinus]

My Floppy Disk died, I bought two ZIP drives. One on USB for my PC and one on SCSI port of the Trinity.