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

[Rodger Boots]

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 at 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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