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

Shouldn't be too hard, drives get daisy-chained on same cable. Drive
number is selected on drive. Only last drive on cable is terminated.
Seven drives maximum (if I remember correctly).
On Nov 9, 2012 1:34 PM, "John Robertson" <jrr@flippers.com> wrote:

> 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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