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

John Robertson 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 :-#)#
>
> ___________
Ah, should review the reorganized
directories...9100A-016_DiskBackup_PN846295_1988.pdf (opps!).

Now to see if I have the install disc or if it is on the system to start
with...the only backups on TTL are from 6.0 and 4.x (BACKUP-3.TD0).

If this works I'll post a followup (or if not).

John :-#)#

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Received on Fri Nov 9 14:56:04 2012