All,
mea culpa, didn't teach the kids about backups before trying
to teach them Pascal on my Mac Plus. Sigh.
Broken component is the hard drive from a La Cie Tsunami
external enclosure. Drive is a Quantum Prodrive LPS, 240 MB capacity,
part number (I think) GN24S012 Rev 05-J. Drive failed while in use,
so it's not termination; another hard drive (Seagate ST31230N) in the
same enclosure appears to format OK (that's as far as I've gotten to
date), so I don't think it's the SCSI interface in the Mac Plus or
the Tsunami power supply. (Despite one inadvertent 120V discharge to
the anti-static on the inside of the Tsunami case!)
Drive no longer appears as a boot drive on the Mac Plus SCSI
chain, nor as a boot drive to a Mac II, nor as an accessible drive to
either the Plus or a Powerbook 3400. Another drive (Apple CD 300)
placed downstream of it (and termination rearranged appropriately)
*does* appear to the 3400, so that's another data point that it's the
Quantum that's broken and not the enclosure or the SCSI
cabling/termination.
Drive *does* make spinning-up and head-seeking noises (once
per power-up). LED indicating drive attention does flash, *once*, as
computer boots up. 5V and 12V supplies to drive look OK to my old
analog multimeter.
When running with case open and parts spread out (now more
carefully insulated), one chip on the Quantum controller board gets
pretty hot pretty fast. That chip is marked 2J4 HA13476 and
has a couple of "wings" in place of the middle 4 or so legs that
would normally be on either side of a regular DIP package.
I haven't gotten an ESR meter yet (I *really* need one of
those), and have not attempted to survey for bad caps on the Quantum
controller board.
Questions:
1) Is the HA13476 expected to be pretty warm in use?
2) What is an HA13476? Is it unobtanium, or replaceable by someone of
my meager soldering skill?
3) Anyone have a matching drive that I could get at reasonably low
cost to try exchanging controller boards?
4) Any suggestions for further trouble-shooting and/or repairing?
I'm proceeding with the Seagate, and will restore from my
last backups, but I know I won't get the kids' Pascal code, so I'd
like to try to get this HDA running again if at all possible. (Plus
there's the nostalgia factor - this was our main home system until
1997 or so, long enough that people were making fun of us about it.)
(And yes, our current main home system is *almost* on topic. It's the
3400 referred to above.)
I'm reading classiccomp on digest, and have an hellacious
travel schedule through next February, so my responses will be
sporadic at best. Apologies in advance for that, but any advice is
well appreciated!
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- Mark
210-522-6025, temporary cell 240-375-2995