I have a (miraculously) surviving (sort of) 1986 DatEXT external CD-ROM on
my IBM 5170 AT.
The unit was working fine when I powered it down and moved the computer
across my basement a few months ago. When I powered it up today, the CD-ROM
driver will load, but it won't read any disks.
I took it apart to see if the drive was spinning up, and the first thing I
noticed was that the little plastic labels covering the window on a couple
of the EPROMs (or is it EEPROMS?) were peeling off (no longer sticky after
13 years). I'm guessing that this is the problem.
Does anyone know where to get EPROM images for this drive, and how would I
upload them to the chips? I'm assuming that I would need an EPROM burner.
Where would I find one?
ThAnX,
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-Jason Willgruber
(roblwill_at_usaor.net)
ICQ#: 1730318
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Received on Mon May 24 1999 - 20:15:27 BST