Hi Joe,
I was having a quick play with an R332 9000 machine at the weekend and
noticed a couple of other 'interesting things' about it.
1. Further to my mail about the extra rear panel jumper leads required to
make this things work. It appears that the FDD mounted in the front panel
of the computer is linked to its own controller card that is in turn linked
to a rear panel HPIB connector. In order for the computer to see the FDD, a
short HPIB connector must be used to link the HPIB connector on the rear
panel of the computer (vertically orientated) and the HPIB connector on the
plug in CPU card.
2. On close inspection of the FDD controller card, it appears that there
are two disk connectors of different lengths (one is the FDD controller).
The disk connector is open - could this be a connector for a HDD? If so, it
doesn't look like an MFM connector - it looks much more like a regular IDE
connector. I've seen references to an internal HDD option for the R332 - is
it possible that this drive is an IDE type?
Cheers
Peter Brown
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Received on Mon Jun 16 2003 - 10:57:00 BST