7 Apr
2011
7 Apr
'11
4:55 a.m.
On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Terry Stewart wrote:
Steve. This dead spot problem is exactly the same
problem Tony and i have
been grappling with for the past couple of months! Check past posts on thiz
forum.
Despite lots of tests, replacements and disassemblies we never got to the
bottom of it. In the end i sourced a replacement drive.
I cleaned up the loading mechanism on the drive in the second Lisa and
re-ran LisaTest 3.0. Everything passed 100%!
Was just about to order a bunch of edge connectors to rebuild the main
wiring harness when I thought to check eBay. Turns out that John Woodall
had NOS harnesses available complete for less than I probably would have
paid for the parts to fabricate them.
I broke down and ordered one of his Sun Remarketing SCSI adapter kits for
the Lisa. What is needed in terms of device driver support to use this
with Lisa Office?
Also had a chance to dig into the second Lisa a bit deeper. Although the
corrosion on the metal chassis parts is far worse than the one on the
bench, damage to the motherboard is nowhere near as severe. I can only
guess it was stored on its left side or back. It should be possible to
get one reliably working unit out of the two by swapping parts around.
Steve
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