Re: Rebuilding a Fluke 9100A with a CF hard drive replacement after both a hard disk and floppy drive failure

techtools-steve wrote:
> This is a carry over from the vector list discussion...
>
> I have a Fluke 9100A that died earlier this year. As bizarre as it
> sounds, the floppy drive caught fire with one of the components
> burning all the way through the floppy pcb before I could cut the
> power. I pulled the dead floppy from the unit and the 9100 worked for
> another 2 weeks before the hard drive failed. I then had not one but
> two difficult to replace components which needed to be sourced.
>
> I was unable to find an original CANON MD350 floppy drive but came
> across the info on iobium.com for converting a TEAC FD235GH.
> Unfortunately, I was also unable to locate a TEAC floppy drive but the
> technical description and 9100 schematics were sufficient to
> successfully convert both a SAMSUNG SFD-321B (B=black face place) and
> SONY MPF920-1 floppy for use in the 9100. I then located a used 40 MB
> Quantum SCSI hard drive and a CF to SCSI adapter with a 128 MB card
> which satisfied all of my storage requirements. Finally, I pulled
> the V3.0 roms and installed a fresh set of V6.0 eproms at U46 and U47
> and modified the jumpers to accommodate the larger eproms.
>
> Several weeks were spent trying to get the V6 software to install
> which always ended with an "Error 205 loading /dd/rom/LEVEL1" on the
> SYS2 diskette. Initially I believed this might have been a
> comparability issue with the replacement floppy drive I hacked
> together or the version of TELEDISK I had used to create the floppies
> so I put the Fluke up on the shelf until I had more info. Now I just
> read something John posted about V6 images being corrupted so thought
> it worth pulling the Fluke down and trying to load an earlier version
> of the Fluke software.
>
> I reformatted the CF "SCSI drive" with the SERVICE 1.4 utility and
> proceeded to load the V4 software from the
> archive using the
> /TTL/Test_Equipment/Fluke/9100A/System_DiscsRV4/SYSTEM4_1.zip media.
> This worked and I can boot V4 from the CF drive successfully but need
> to load the programmer and UUT disks.
>
> The SYSTEM4_1.zip file did not contain any disk images beyond the
> basic SYS1, SYS2, USR1 and USR2 so I'm at a loss to what I should
> download and install next. Is there a specific version of the
> programmer and UUT images I must match or are these optional disks
> interchangeable between software versions? A pointer to the next
> appropriate image files would be greatly appreciated!
>
>
Has anyone had success adding a second SCSI drive to the base 9100A/FT
system? I can't seem to find a reference in the manual about this,
although it does talk about using the SCSI buss to add additional
storage, etc. to the machine.

Trying to see if I can copy the SCSI 6.1 drive directly to CF using the
ACARD interface plugged into the rear of my 9100A/FT (68030).

Thanks,

John :-#)#

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Received on Fri Nov 9 14:35:18 2012