Has anyone got a service manual handy for a MiniScribe
3438P?
I yanked one from an XT clone to use with my SwTPC S/09, but
it won't format, and the most obvious possible problem is the
jumper settings. There are four that are obviously for drive
selects 0..3, and three others that might be the troublemakers.
I've tried some random settings, and in most of them it comes
up to speed okay, selects, and then after about three seconds
starts a probably unhealthy wobbling, sounding as if it is rapidly
seeking a million different tracks, one after the other. In
at least one setting, it doesn't always recognize when it has
got up to speed, and continues ramping up to a frightening pitch.
Bill,
Did you get the LED attached? This uses bi-color 2 lead type.
That will give us better clues! Orange is auto-park when not used
for a while enabled or disabled by a jumper, flashing red in morse
fashion - TROUBLE! Green when accressing/data r/w. Jumper all JP1
to JP3 and put one jumper on either 4 selections as marked DS0 to
DS3. I have a Miniscribe 3650 (40mb MFM) if you want it as well as
Priam V185 (appox 65mb)? I want both out to get space back!
Miniscribe is tad troublesome usually compared to other hd's that I
have experienced. Oh, REMEMBER to LLF it first to marry both hd and
controller properly. And, I have lot and lots of 64k and 256k
DRAM's from 200ns to 100ns, many of them are matched.
Jason D.
PS: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
With the jumpers set as they were in the XT, it selects okay,
but I get error messages any time I try to read, write, or
format the thing. It still works okay in the XT though.
Anyway, help would be appreciated. I've already searched the
web quite a bit. Found some specs, and a thread in which people
were looking for the right settings to use in a PC, but nothing
about what the jumpers mean (or how to set them for an S/09!).
In other news, I recently realized that I can upgrade my S/09's
memory just by slapping 4164's into the unused IC sockets. I
had a few lying around, so it got an immediate 64K upgrate. 192K
more is on order. I can still remember when this would have
cost money! :-)
Cheers!
Bill.