MPC60II Floppy ERROR ff60

Hi all,

I just received an mpc from the U.S. , and when i tried to format a floppy, i get a FF60 error, saying that the floppy doesnt contain any disk and that i need to insert a disk.

Iv got no marion scsi board, so basically im funked'. Can't save anything.
I tried with all kinds of disks 2HD, HD , 2DD, DD , Taped the holes, New disk,old disks..
always the same FF60 (that appears for anything related to floppy i.e. load,save,format etc.

I opened up the board a few times, and i saw that the floppy drive is hand labeled "MPC2000XL", so its probably a mod the seller did. The seller swears that he's formatted a few disks and double checked it before selling it. i didnt see any "jumper" on that drive and i tripled checkd the connexions.

Another symptom is that when i power up the mpc, the read/write led of the disk drive is constantly lit / bright green.

Also when i insert disks, there doesnt seem to be any kind of activity going on in the disk drive, besides a subtle 250 bpm ticking if u put my ear up close.

I tried the search option, and saw FF-60 bump a few times but no real answer to that..
any chance that the floppy died during the shipping?
Really looking forward to hearing from the community.

cheers!

If the floppy disk light stays on the whole time, then there is an issue with cabling. Also, make sure the power cable on the drive is seated properly.

Try reseating the floppy cable to see if it fixes the issue. If that doesn't work, flip the floppy cable upside down and put it on the floppy drive. Many newer floppy drives that are designed for PC use expect to see a crossover type connection...

i was getting disk errors when i first got mine... using dd/ds 720k floppies solved that issue instantly. although it sounds like your problem might be more drive/cable related. good luck.

Ok thank you for the answers.