Ampro Littleboard problems..

From: Gene Buckle <geneb_at_deltasoft.com>
Date: Thu Nov 29 09:58:10 2001

> On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Gene Buckle wrote:
>
> > I've got a Littleboard I'm tring to bring up. When I feed it a disk,
> > and power it up, it will select the drive, spin it and shut down after
> > about 3 to 5 seconds. I never hear a head step. Nothing shows up on the
> > serial port (port a, 9600). The drive I'm using is a Teac FD-54B-02-U
> > and the two jumpers are set to DS0 and IU.
>
> I presume that is a typo and it really is an FD-55B. Is it terminated?
> I assume a straight cable since it is selected. The FD-55s that I use
> are jumpered DS0 (for straight cable), HS, IU, and SM on the two main
> jumper headers. PM is also jumpered on its own header.
>

Don, the number on the back of the drive really is FD-54B. As far as
termination, I don't know. There is no place for what I would call a
"traditional" floppy termination pack. There is a SIP resistor soldered
into the board right ahead of the data connector. I don't have the drive
in front of me now, but I don't recall seeing "SM" as being a jumper
position. I do recall the "HS" labelling however.

I don't recall anything marked "PM" at all.

Thanks!

g.
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