25 Mar
2005
25 Mar
'05
2:22 p.m.
There is a
single, unmarked, jumper on the seek/interface PCB in the RX50
-- the one mounted verticalled at the back of the drive that the
interface cables plug into. It's normally unjumpered. Jumering it will
change the drive selects from 0,1 to 2,3. I don't know if that's what
needs to be done, but it seems likely.
Jerome Fine replies:
As usual, the expert knows a bit more.
Do you need to remove the case to find the jumper?
Yes. But that's easy to do. Just remove the mouting plate (4 screws) and
the case will sldie off (it's held on by the same screws). Nothing
springs out either.
I must admit that the only other time I removed
the RX50 case was to give one that did not work
to my grandson. I had rescued about 50 from a
dumpster and could not use them all. He was very
angry that day and used a big hammer to convert
the RX50 into very small pieces. It was such
Argh!!! Why didn't you teach your grandson something useful. There's a
perfectlu good DC motor in there which can be run off batteries. And the
stepper motor. And a couple of visible LEDs....
Kids these days are never taught to hack anything, which is presumably
why so few of them ever do. Oh well...
-tony