Philips CDI 602 General Maintenance
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No service manual for the Philips CDI 602 has been found, and little is known about the Maxi MMC board it shares with the Philips CDI 601.[1][2] The 602 is a 601 with a 3.5-inch floppy drive, so the care of the shared parts is the same; the CDI 601 maintenance page gives the detail of the SmartWatch socket replacement and the port pinouts.[3] Fault-finding is on the Philips CDI 602 Troubleshooting Guide.
Mains voltage selector
[edit | edit source]The 602 takes 100 to 120 V or 220 to 240 V ± 10 %, chosen with the 110/220 V selector on the rear panel (item 14 in the brochure drawing), and draws about 40 W without extensions.[4] Retrostuff, a CD-i repair site, says only the professional and authoring players have such a selector.[5] Check it before connecting the player, and before opening it unplug the mains lead and leave the power switch on for some time, as retrostuff advises for all CD-i supplies.[5]
Floppy disc drive
[edit | edit source]| Item | Specification |
|---|---|
| Controller | DP8473, software-compatible with the µPD765A, with an analogue data separator and phase-locked loop |
| Adjustment | None; "No trimmer or adjustement are required" |
| Data rates | 250 kbit/s MFM (125 kbit/s FM) and 500 kbit/s MFM (250 kbit/s FM) |
| Supported drives | Standard 3.5-inch drives: double density, 1.0 MB unformatted, or quad density, 2.0 MB unformatted; 80 tracks per side; 300 rpm |
| Transfers | Local DMA into a 4 KB sector buffer, interrupt-driven |
The front panel has an FDD LED next to the drive and a push button to eject the disc.[4] The documentation gives no alignment procedure, because the interface needs none, and it lists the characteristics of the standard drives it supports.[6] The player looks for the drive at every start-up. If the check fails, no floppy formats are added to its configuration, and a "load" from the player shell is cancelled after a time-out because the shell cannot match the drive to any format it knows.[7][8]
SmartWatch NVRAM
[edit | edit source]The 602 stores its settings in a Dallas DS1216C SmartWatch RAM socket carrying an 8 KB SRAM chip, for example a Philips FCB61C65LL-70P; the clock and batteries are in the socket.[9] Do not lift the SRAM out of the socket, as that deletes its contents at once. Maxim's recommended replacement for the socket in this arrangement, the DS1243Y-120+, is no longer made; the battery and socket options are described on the CDI 601 maintenance page.[9]
Disc mechanism
[edit | edit source]Discs load in a caddy into the CDM 9 mechanism.[4][10][11] ICDIA calls the CDM 9 generally very reliable.[10] The World of CD-i's checks for a disc that will not spin, a slipped turntable and a damaged flat cable, are on the troubleshooting guide.[11]
Preventive maintenance checklist
[edit | edit source]- Check the voltage selector before powering the player.[4]
- Check that the eject button (5) releases a floppy.[4]
- Load a test floppy with the player shell's "load" button to confirm that the drive is detected and read; see floppy faults.[8]
- Check the date and time after the player has been off for a while; a lost clock points to the SmartWatch batteries.[9]
- Play a disc and watch the Reading Disc LED, which lights when a CD-i disc is loaded and flashes while it is read.[4]
Related pages
[edit | edit source]- Philips CDI 602
- Philips CDI 602 Troubleshooting Guide
- Philips CDI 602 Capacitor Replacement Guide
- Philips CDI 601 General Maintenance
References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ The New International CD-i Association, "CD-i Service Manuals" (retrieved 2026-10-21): no manual for the CDI 601 or 602.
- ↑ Retrostuff, "Modifications for Philips CD-i Players" (retrieved 2026-10-20), section "JNMS, Maxi MMC and Mini MMC (prof.)".
- ↑ The New International CD-i Association, "Philips professional and authoring CD-i players" (retrieved 2026-10-20): the CDI 602 "Identical to the CDI 601, but equiped with a floppy disk drive".
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Philips Interactive Media Systems, CDI 602 Professional CD-I System, brochure, pp. 3 and 5: "Personal (Customizing) Memory"; power supply 100-120 V and 220-240 V ± 10 % selectable, approx. 40 W without extensions; front panel key (1 Reading Disc LED, 2 caddy loading slot, 3 FDD LED indicator, 4 FDD 3.5", 5 FDD push button to eject the disc); rear panel key (14 mains voltage selector 110/220 V). Hosted as File:Philips CDI 602 Brochure.pdf.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Retrostuff, "Philips CD-i Power Supply Units", 2024, updated 2026 (retrieved 2026-10-20): general information and warning; section "Maxi MMC / Mini MMC".
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Philips, CDI6XX Technical Manual, chapter 10, Floppy specification, sections 2.1, 3, 3.1 and 3.2. Hosted as File:Philips CDI 6XX Technical Documentation (1992).pdf.
- ↑ Philips Interactive Media Systems, CDI6XX Technical Manual (Technical Documentation for CDI 605 Users), 22 June 1992, chapter 3, Configuration Status Descriptor, section 4: config checks for a floppy drive through a controlled bus error and adds the floppy formats to the CSD file only if a drive is present. Hosted as File:Philips CDI 6XX Technical Documentation (1992).pdf.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Philips, CDI6XX Technical Manual, chapter 6, Load application and system, section 4, Load floppy application. Hosted as File:Philips CDI 6XX Technical Documentation (1992).pdf.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Retrostuff, "NVRAM+RTC Solutions for Philips CD-i Players", 2021, updated 2025 (retrieved 2026-10-20), sections "32 KB (SmartWatch)" and "8 KB (SmartWatch)".
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 The New International CD-i Association, "Comparison table of all Philips professional and authoring CD-i players" (retrieved 2026-10-21): CDI 602/00 caddy, CDM 9; the CDM-9 "generally considered to be very reliable".
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 The World of CD-i, "Chronicle #32: CD-i player CDM substituition", 30 October 2020 (retrieved 2026-10-21): 602/00 CDM 9.