4 Jul
2007
4 Jul
'07
5:18 p.m.
Hi,
Well, all you actually need to be accessible is the
inteface
cabling to the drive. So leving the drive accessible (and even
using longer cables to link it hup) might be enough.
It's pushing 10 years since I got rid of my Sirii, but IIRC the hard drive
and controller board are mounted in such a way that the cabling between them
is inaccessible when they are mounted in the machine.
The only way to work on the hard drive is to remove it from the metal
assembly carrying the drives and prop it up somewhere close bye; in fact
there should be no problem with removing the entire "drive carrier" and
reconnecting the hard drive alone (I'm sure I did this with mine when I was
tinkering with it).
Unfortunately I also gave away all of the documentation I had when I got rid
of the machines and I'm pretty sure that most if not all of it came from the
long defunct FidoNet "Apricot Technical Support BBS" (and/or other Fido
BBSs). Where you'd find it now though?
It's just possible that I *may* have backups somewhere, but they're likely
either on tape or somewhere on one of my many MFM/RLL drives so are pretty
inaccessible. One day I must look through all that stuff.
TTFN - Pete.