David Shoemaker wrote:

I wonder if we could "field" upgrade from a to ft?

I'll post pictures of the 68030 guts in a day or two - one would pretty much have to do a replacement motherboard... Alternatively, some clever person (with time on their hands) could possibly make a CPU plugin module that replaced the original 68000 with a 68030 and onboard RAM and better floppy interface... This machine has a 40mb SCSI drive, vs the original 20. The 40mb upgrade documents (under 9100A/Fluke 9100 Floppy Images.zip) mention that the base ROMs need to be 5.0 or higher, and it looks like the operating system is 6.0 or higher. The sectors are now 512 as well after the 40mb upgrade. The original 20mb SCSI drives were 256 sectors. Note this upgrade can be done for either the 9100A or 9100A/FT The directory labelled 20mb drive files has been renamed to Diagnostic-files - looking at the files showed that they are tests for Vector I/Opods, etc. _*Speaking of upgrades....*_ Continuing digging through the 9100 files - */9100-SERV1_4.zip/* turns out to be a self test script for the 9100 series. Appears to be at least 6.0 and possibly for the FT only - can someone with a 9100A test this on a non-FT machine? Looking through the source code (text viewer, but a lot is binary) it appears there were several controllers and HDs available for the 9100: // _______________________________________________ Techtoolslist mailing list Techtoolslist@flippers.com http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/techtoolslist FTP site is: ftp://ttl.arcadetech.org Archive site: http://seven.pairlist.net/pipermail/techtoolslist/

David Shoemaker wrote:

I wonder if we could "field" upgrade from a to ft?

I'll post pictures of the 68030 guts in a day or two - one would pretty much have to do a replacement motherboard... Alternatively, some clever person (with time on their hands) could possibly make a CPU plugin module that replaced the original 68000 with a 68030 and onboard RAM and better floppy interface... This machine has a 40mb SCSI drive, vs the original 20. The 40mb upgrade documents (under 9100A/Fluke 9100 Floppy Images.zip) mention that the base ROMs need to be 5.0 or higher, and it looks like the operating system is 6.0 or higher. The sectors are now 512 as well after the 40mb upgrade. The original 20mb SCSI drives were 256 sectors. Note this upgrade can be done for either the 9100A or 9100A/FT The directory labelled 20mb drive files has been renamed to Diagnostic-files - looking at the files showed that they are tests for Vector I/O pods, etc. ...Speaking of upgrades.... Continuing digging through the 9100 files - 9100-SERV1_4.zip - turns out to be a self test script for the 9100 series. Appears to be at least 6.0 and possibly for the FT - can someone with a 9100A test this on a non-FT machine? Looking through the source code (text viewer, but a lot is binary) it appears there were several controllers and HDs available for the 9100: (damn, lost 1/2 the message - will try to reconstruct - 2nd attempt, found illegal characters, should be fine now…) Interesting text in this file: Select Type Of Unit: 9100 9105 9050 (JR - 9050???) Currently: SCSI 256) Select Hard Disk: (Currently: SCSI 512) Select Floppy Disk Type: Currently: CANON Currently: SONY F17 Currently: TEAC FD235 Currently: MITSHUBHISI MF355C Currently: CANON High Density ormating: SCSI drive 256 bytes/sector fmt512 -p=/hdr formating: SCSI drive 512 bytes/sector fmt512 Western Digital/Miniscribe MS8425 SCSI - 256 byte sectors SCSI - 512 byte sectors controller type 6 or 7 Controller: Adaptec 4000 series controller Controller: Western Digital WD1002S Controller: Konan DS2001 Controller: Adaptec 5500 series Controller: SMS 3100 Drive: NEC D3126 Drive: Tandon TM362 Drive: Microscience HH-325 Drive: MiniScribe 8425 Drive: Rodime SCSI drive ending configuration data Are there any bad bytes marked by the manufacturer on the disk? enter <y/n> head number of bad track (0 - 3>? cylinder number of bad track? Any more bad bytes? <y/n> Sure looks like 6.0 at least and possibly 6.1 service disc. John :-#)# _______________________________________________ Techtoolslist mailing list Techtoolslist@flippers.com http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/techtoolslist FTP site is: ftp://ttl.arcadetech.org Archive site: http://seven.pairlist.net/pipermail/techtoolslist/