At 03:44 11/21/98 +0000, you wrote:
>> I swapped the cable for another RK cable. Now after I type 'DM' and hit
>> return the 'A' light comes on along with the LED on the module in the card
>
>OK, so you have a bad cable, or at least a bad contact at one end. It's
>pin-pin (apart from that one pin with no wire going to it, I think), so
>it's easy enough to check out with an ohmeter. The contacts can be
>cleaned pretty easily.
>
>> cage but there is no further action. The diskpak was labeled 'Bootdisk'. I
>> think the previous owner did say he was able to startup the machine a
>> couple days before I picked the equipment up.
>
>Do you have 2 drives fairly close together? If so, cable up the other one
>in place of the one you're using and swap over the 'Ready' lamp caps
>which set the drive ID. See if that gets it booting. At least that should
>isolate a drive problem.
Gee, you're up rather late tonite Tony! :-)
Already tried that today. The two RK07's that were useable did not work.
One had a terribly noisy spindle bearing and faulted upon spinup and the
other has some sort of problem where the Fault light comes on after it does
the seek-to-track-zero process. I swapped 'Ready' lamps too. Seems I have
just one drive to work with now.
Regards, Chris
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Received on Fri Nov 20 1998 - 21:54:55 GMT