11 Feb
2006
11 Feb
'06
1:20 a.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
There are obviously adapters, and then there are
adapters. I pefer the
ones that are a complete tray, rather than just two U-shaped pieces, as the
tray type usually includes bottom-mount holes for drives, which, AFAIK,
will always work.
Follow-up: I received some very nice offers, but after some
basement-diving I was able to unearth a pair. They were obviously meant
for floppy drives, but they will suffice. (I found a pair specifically
for hard drives because they had many more holes on the bottom,
including one that lined up perfectly with that bizarre
recessed-by-an-inch hole in the bottom of the case, but they curl upward
and prevent the front black front panel from fitting so I set those aside.)
Now that I've got it all nice and tightly mounted, I have found that the
ADP50L, for some dumb reason I obviously didn't test throroughly enough
to notice, won't boot the machine from the drive. You can boot from a
floppy and interact with the drive just fine, but it won't boot from
that controller. It has a BIOS, so WTF? Argh!!
I will probably stick the Data Tech MFM controller/ST-225 combo back in
just so I can boot it without floppies, then jumper the IDE controller
to an alternate ROM address and hope I can see both of them... I'll
also get that panel back on in the process :-)
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