Nice to hear that these lovely hard disk drives keep getting repaired. I like to spin my drive up from time to time to keep it running, I’d imagine they would otherwise get sticky. About file transfer: I have tested that a ZoomFloppy with IEEE-488 can read the directory of my D9060 but I can’t get any files transfered (the HDD light lits up but nothing happens). — Ville Laustela Rob Clarke <crock@clarke-family.org.uk> kirjoitti 27.1.2014 kello 11.18: > There must be something in the air at the moment because I also fixed an old D9060 last week. > > For me the problem was a failed EPROM for the SASI controller. After comparing what I extracted with my reader to the file on zimmers, it was only a single bit which had flipped. Stiction prevented the original Tandon 602 drive from spinning up to start with but I didn't realise over the noise of the fan. It unstuck itself after a few minutes and since then has fired up normally. As an added bonus, I was able to read the entire disk without any problems, 25 years since it was last used. > > I'd now like to extract a complete image of the drive to see if there is any deleted files that may be of interest. I was going to use the WMUTIL.PRG basic/ml program written by Andre Fachet and Bo Zimmerman to pull an image but does the concept of a .D90 image exist? > > cheers, Rob > > On 27/01/2014 02:04, hwarin@neuf.fr wrote: >> "Ardidiou" as we can say by there ! >> I'm proud to annonce here that my venerable D9090 is now again in >> operationnal ! >> For those here who don't remember, it survived to two (2) travels from >> Germany to France (thanks to DHL) many years ago and a start of fire >> at my storage location four years ago. After a lot of patience, and >> cleaning, and patience I've the so desired message on the SX64 screen >> (using a DAMS cartridge) : >> 0 "FUFHD " 00 3A >> 19441 Blocks free. >> What did I finally had to replace/repair ? >> - The power line filter >> - Fuse holder nut (DHL, probably) >> - 1 weak solder (ground power of DOS board) >> - Status LED pins >> - Tandon 603 (DHL) replaced by a ST225 >> - ST225 replaced by a ST238R (but the ST225 works well in my Olivetti >> M24) >> Don't ask why, it operates well only when placed on it's right side ! >> (seen from ST225 manual, it's forbiden to use it from it's back .. and >> it's the exact position choosen by commodore) >> Regards - Hervé >> Next "repair" project : a CBM2001 > > Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2014-01-27 10:01:49
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