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OK, I have a few small(1/2 ton...) problems...
I broke my floppy drive! What size belt(IBM PN 2305616) does the 4965
drive use? And what material is the front cover? Seems that the cover for
the floppy drive uses molded tabs instead of those nice metal snaps. Has
anyone ever tried adding those snaps? I might do that... But meanwhile, I
either need a replacement cover or glue it together. Would normal
superglue work? OK, on to the floppy drive... Seems that after 15-20
years, floppy drives(among other things) like to break down. This time the
belt was rather brittle, and it snapped when I tried to remove it. I'm
expecting the same thing when I dig around in the hard drives.
OK, on to the next question... I have a total of five hard drives(one 4963
and four 4967), and one of the 4967's was setup as the primary IPL drive.
Problem is I don't know which one it is and have no way of figuring that
out(at least until I get everything else running right). I have two
floppies labeled as IPL... There is a set of two disks, the first says
"EDL Compile System, Insert in Drive 1 and IPL" and the other says "EDL
Compile System, Insert in Drive 2". What exactly are they? And the other
disk just says "IPL" with nothing else on the label. And then there is the
possibility that they are blank disks...
BTW, I'm working on a page for my Series/1 on my Tripod web site, it
should be up by the end of the week(assuming I can find my QuickCam by
then).
TIA
-JR
http://members.tripod.com/~jrollins/index.html
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Lair/1681/
Received on Tue Dec 30 1997 - 21:16:49 GMT