[sebhc] H-47 disk drive

[Walter Moore]

>
>There is one other possibility. When my slave Remex H47 drive died, I
>found that a standard 8" drive could replace it if I made new cables for
>the data and power connectors. All the normal signals were there; just
>on different pins.
>
>If the master drive died, that is more of a problem. It might be
>possible to keep the old board with the microcontroller, but connect it
>to a different 8" drive -- but I never tried it. When my master H47 also
>died, I just gave up on the whole thing and got a CDR disk controller
>and drives. That setup is still working today!
>--

If the master drive controller board still works you should be able to 
jumper it to be drive 2 or 3, and still attach a couple of drives to it in 
the same manner that Lee did, as drives 0 and 1.

Lee, can you read 8" HDOS format disks on that system (pray, pray, pray)?

..walt



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