Lisa HELP!

From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_ncal.verio.com>
Date: Mon Oct 5 20:01:24 1998

On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Kai Kaltenbach wrote:

> Problem is, neither the Kalok SCSI hard drive nor the 800K floppy drive spin
> up when I power on the machine. I pulled out the drive enclosure, and there
> is no power connected. The Sun Parallel-to-SCSI has a 6-pin right-angle
> power connector on it. There is a loose power connector in the drive area,
> but it has only 3 pins on a totally different spacing. What is going on
> here?

I think that's the serial connector. The board had a serial port on it so
you could do simple diagnostics from a terminal. No kidding! One of the
Lisas we got in that haul of 7 a few weeks back had one of these cards.
The guy who got it (Roger Sinasohn) should have the docs on that card, so
maybe he can help you some more.

Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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