29 Oct
2015
29 Oct
'15
10:45 a.m.
On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Ben Sinclair <ben at bensinclair.com> wrote:
I only have one RL02, so I think that cable should
work. I ordered it anyway!
That cable (BC80M) will work even if you get a second drive. No
matter how the first drive is attached to the controller, to add a
drive, you remove the terminator from the first drive, add a
drive-to-drive cable between the two drives, then move the terminator
to the second drive.
Can anyone with experience from back in the day comment on why there
is a BC80M? Why all the controllers didn't just use the flat cable to
a cab kit and a drive-to-drive cable? Cost? Length? EMI reduction
from running the BC80M into a BA23, etc, and only
pushing shielded
cable outside the CPU enclosure? Is the flat-cable-and-cab-kit
pre-FCC only?
I'll keep an eye out for other controllers, but I
think I will order
an extender and attempt to debug the one I have.
It seems to be mostly working, so with luck, it's a single IC, once
you narrow it down.
-ethan