Moonferret
Experienced Member
Hi Folks!
Recently picked up a couple of GRiD laptops. 3x 1520's and a GRiDCase 3 Plus. The 1520's I've managed to get up and running. Had to do the DS1287 repair on two of them and plan on eventually replacing the 20Mb Conner HD's with CF cards (Is there anything in particular that causes the rubber seals to degrade on these old Conner drives? Had a couple that were almost completely gone and some are like new)
The main problem is with the GRiDCase 3. It was fitted with one of those JVC 10Mb hard drives with the 26pin Interface (Is there an actual name for this interface?) which is dead and unfortunately there is no floppy drive. I've created a set of DOS ROMs so I can get the machine to boot up but I'm after suggestions on how I can add some storage to make the machine useful. Floppy drive - Seems to be a non-standard 26pin interface. Hard Drive - Finding a working replacement will be next to impossible and will probably involve removing one from a working machine.
So, could an IDE drive be connected via the Parallel port and drivers loaded from ROM?
There are two 34pin headers on the motherboard (One is used for the JVC controller) and I'm wondering if they are the equivalent of an ISA expansion? Long shot but does anybody have a service / technical manual?
Cheers!
Recently picked up a couple of GRiD laptops. 3x 1520's and a GRiDCase 3 Plus. The 1520's I've managed to get up and running. Had to do the DS1287 repair on two of them and plan on eventually replacing the 20Mb Conner HD's with CF cards (Is there anything in particular that causes the rubber seals to degrade on these old Conner drives? Had a couple that were almost completely gone and some are like new)
The main problem is with the GRiDCase 3. It was fitted with one of those JVC 10Mb hard drives with the 26pin Interface (Is there an actual name for this interface?) which is dead and unfortunately there is no floppy drive. I've created a set of DOS ROMs so I can get the machine to boot up but I'm after suggestions on how I can add some storage to make the machine useful. Floppy drive - Seems to be a non-standard 26pin interface. Hard Drive - Finding a working replacement will be next to impossible and will probably involve removing one from a working machine.
So, could an IDE drive be connected via the Parallel port and drivers loaded from ROM?
There are two 34pin headers on the motherboard (One is used for the JVC controller) and I'm wondering if they are the equivalent of an ISA expansion? Long shot but does anybody have a service / technical manual?
Cheers!