[Techtoolslist] Rebuilding a Fluke 9100A with a CF hard drive replacement after both a hard disk and floppy drive failure

[techtools-steve]

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!