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 :-#)#