20 Apr
2005
20 Apr
'05
9:58 a.m.
On Apr 19, 2005, at 9:58 PM, Tom Jennings wrote:
Ok... I'll probably end up taking some photos so I can make sure I'm
doing the right thing.
Yes, I remember that. And yes, that does help!
Oh, Bruce has been VERY helpful! I'm keeping in constant touch with
him!
By the way, someone has a VERY nice MV/10000 setup available on EBay...
see http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5187714393 for a
complete system. It's in St Paul, MN and would be a wonderful machine
to save!
Mark
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Mark Davidson wrote:
Yeah, I thought so... I'll try to get them off tonight.
My big question is how to remove the front or
side panels. I know
the front panels should "pop off", but I tried pulling one or two and
they are on tight.
PULL HARD!
3) Pull out the drive and check the heads... and
pray they locked
the heads down; once that's verified, I'd unlock them
Buy some lintfree swabs, 99% alcohol and clean 'em anyways. I
found it simply easier to remove the big metal cover from the
drive, loosen the screws holding down the plastic cover of the
heads, slide it back 1" (without otherwise removing it) and
getting a good clean shot at inspection and cleaning.
At least my 6070 has a toggle switch inside, on the
servo board,
that disables the head servos; DISABLE, power the drive up switch
to RUN and let it purge for an hour; this is recommended in the
service docs. The platters will spin, brush cycle runs, air pumps,
presumably flings off all the dust.
Appreciate the advice... I'll try to get into the drive by this
weekend, and run a test on it.
4) Apply
power individually to the units (tape, CPU, disk). Make
sure they power up ok.
Most peripherals are pretty much stanalone; the tape drives will
mount, BOT, rewind, etc with the CPU off. It helps.
Suggestions are most welcome... it's been
years since I worked with
one of these beasts. I'm only a "semi" hardware guy... I can do some
checking, but I don't have a lot of diagnostic experience with these
machines.
I'm OK with hardware but I'm no DG expert. This is my only
minicomputer. Bruce Ray knows a lot though. I assume you've seen
www.simulogics.com...