On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 10:44:29PM -0400, Ashley Carder wrote:
> Next step is to make sure these drives have the right cards
> to be able to hook up to an RK11 controller (the M993 having
> RK8E written on it doesn't sound good)
The same mylar ribbon cable you use to interconnect the drives
is what you need to connect the first drive to an RK11C or RK11D
controller.
The RK8E has no way to provide the same kind of physical interconnect,
so it has a pair of multi-wire ribbon cables and the M993 paddle card
(as does the RKV11D, for much the same reason).
> I do suppose that I should do some cleaning on these drives
> because although the foam hasn't turned to goop yet, I do
> see a few small fragments of the foam laying inside the drive
> area that I didn't see before.
That will be important before you even *think* about loading a pack.
-ethan
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