after being busy with other 8-bitters, I returned to Thomson with a nice MO6, donated by a French colleague. After the filter capacitor on the PSU turned into stinky, white smoke, I cleaned the computer, replaced the filter capacitor (although not really needed) and managed to load games from cassette and ROM cartridge.
There came a CD 90-351 FDD controller with disk drive with the MO6. However, even original Thomson disks refuse to be read. I get either "no disk" message with no disk activity at all or the disk spins for 1-2s, then I get an I/O error. I cleaned the drive, but no luck. Also empty DD disks cannot be initialized resp. formatted. So I decided to put a cased HxC on the flat ribbon cable of the Thomson disk drive. I´m using a single 5V PSU, as the Thomson disk drive PSU seems to have more than one voltage. When I insert the flat ribbon cable straight (not turned by 180°), switch on the disk drive PSU (I guess there needs to be power on the little board where the round cable from the CD 90-351 gets converted to the flat ribbon cable), add 5V, set the jumper on the HxC to ID0/Drive A and select an FD file (which has been converted to HFE), I can see activity and hear noise on/from the HcX, but after 1-2s I get a "Disk I/O error". I tried multiple settings on the HxC SD programm, but without success. I´m a little lost now.
Here two photos to explain the setup a bit better:
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