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Figures 8 and 9 show the cable positioning in
the All-In-One Computer.

         Figure 8.
       Ribbon Cables
    All-In-One Computer

       Figure 9.
Power Supply Connectors
  All-In-One Computer

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Страница 1: ...e for the Z 100 in the late 80s with a SCSI Controller marketed by CDR Paul Herman editor and publisher of the Z 100 LifeLine at the time tried to get a special order of boards from CDR adapted specifically for the Z 100 However it soon became evident to Paul and several volunteers working as his staff that they needed to develop their own controller and the new Z 100 LifeLine SCSI EEPROM board wa...

Страница 2: ...amaged Further the read write head may also be damaged For early hard drives it is CRITICAL to run a disk utility that parks the heads in an unused portion of the disk a storage or parking area before the heads come to rest Such a utility is SHIP an external command packaged in CP M and MS DOS operating systems Later MFM drives had an auto park feature that placed the heads down after the last usa...

Страница 3: ...troller and may be stored any where along the top row of pins of the VI jumpers when not in use See the Software Programming section for more on this Check for a programming plug on the new drive before installation and make a note of the position of any jumpers Try this setting first and if unsuccessful try the other positions before giving up Hint Drive Select DS pins may be labeled DS0 through ...

Страница 4: ...the mother board If the part number on this IC is lower than 444 129 1 such as 444 129 the IC must be replaced before installing a hard drive Locate the Monitor ROM MTR ROM or ZROM IC U190 on the motherboard If the part number on this IC is lower than 444 87 5 such as 444 87 444 87 1 2 3 or 4 the IC must be replaced before installing a hard drive Note Newer power supplies hard drive boards PALs an...

Страница 5: ...ed Z DOS and CP M If you are satisfied with these two partitions you will not need to repartition the disk with PART However if you wish to change this partition information you must run the PART utility The PART utility is self explanatory Just follow the procedures as given to change the partition names and sizes as necessary then choose a default boot partition and save the configuration to the...

Страница 6: ... were all full height 5 1 4 drives Later drives were available as half height and or 3 5 wide and had higher capacities Locate and check the setting of any programming plugs or pins on the hard drive Programming plugs may take many forms on floppy and hard drives On the Miniscribe 2012 and the Seagate ST 412 it takes the form of that shown in the picture a flat pack of 8 shorted pairs of pins Alth...

Страница 7: ...e of the floppy drives ensure the remaining floppy drive has a terminal resistor pack and the drive select is properly set DS0 or DS1 as needed As with the floppy drives it is the drive select position on the programming plug that determines the drive number or letter and it doesn t matter if the first drive letter is first or last on the cable Therefore drive 0 E of a two drive system can be firs...

Страница 8: ...s The drive will need a pair of mounting brackets for the full height drives but if you already use half height floppy drives the same brackets could be used to mount a half height hard drive The Data Separator Board is mounted over the drive If your hard drive has its own faceplate you may be able to cut a large opening in your existing faceplate Figure 6 Data Separator Board Low Profile Computer...

Страница 9: ...Figures 8 and 9 show the cable positioning in the All In One Computer Figure 8 Ribbon Cables All In One Computer Figure 9 Power Supply Connectors All In One Computer 9 ...

Страница 10: ...Figures 10 and 11 show the cable positioning for the Low Profile Computer Figure 10 Figure 11 10 ...

Страница 11: ...r adding a second external hard drive Note the position of the backplane connectors allows the addition of the drive without disturbing the internal drive s position as last on the cable This interior drive therefore keeps the terminal resistor whether the external drive is connected or not Do not use a terminal resistor in the external hard drive Reassemble the computer using the assembly instruc...

Страница 12: ...ART and FORMAT utilities Copy the desired operating systems onto the hard drive DRIVING US CRAZY BUT FOR A REASON by C Alan Brenden 7 09 92 In the early days of the PC there wasn t much involved in deciding when a new hard disk was to be bought or repaired The first hard disks used Seagate s ST506 technology and that was your choice Times and technology have changed and today s high performance sy...

Страница 13: ... IDE interface SCSI hard disks boast the fastest transfer rates of all the discussed technologies with SCSI 2 having a transfer rate up to 40M bytes per second SCSI implements 2 ways of boosting transfer rates fast and wide FAST SCSI doubles the clock speed and WIDE SCSI increases the bus width SCSI also implements other performance features including controller based RAM caching and tag command q...

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