I bought itThis Data General disk drive came into my possession today : sadly it was changed into a showpiece by directly driving the disk and not much else. Probably toast by now..
I can recognize the serial IO typical of the micronova series, but not much else.
If someone can ID this drive?
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Could you upload hign quality images of the control board. I am rebuilding it from scratch since the one I just bought from EBay does not have any of its circuit boards.This Data General disk drive came into my possession today : sadly it was changed into a showpiece by directly driving the disk and not much else. Probably toast by now..
I can recognize the serial IO typical of the micronova series, but not much else.
If someone can ID this drive?
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The stepper motor board? Do I have that one on mine? Also I may be able to find the Data General chips somewhere.Not feasible in my opinion, but good luck if you want to try...
The controller is a multilayer board and is stuffed with DG-specific IC's. Thers is also something I believe to be an 8X300 ( but no firmware ROMs?) , a 8049 controller and a MB8877 FDC
( This controller handles both the harddisk and floppydrives) Also the powercircuitry for the stepper is located on an other board that I do not have.
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Could I use a 6 pin stepper motor driver from my broken Epson Pinter, if I modified it?You do not have the stepper motor driver on your disk, I believe it is part of the powersupply.
I do not have a clue on how to repair one of these but I want to restore it to some resemblance of functionality. By that I mean reading and writting to the disk. I have only ever worked on more modern gard drives.Possibly...but you asking this suggests to me that you are seriously underestimating the difficulty of what you want to achieve. Possible, yes, but seriously difficult.
The hard drive arrives on Monday.Possibly...but you asking this suggests to me that you are seriously underestimating the difficulty of what you want to achieve. Possible, yes, but seriously difficult.
Thank you, since I am starting with a blank slate, I think I will base the control scheme on the better document CDC HAWK Drive. It is the only hard drive I know of that has a block procedure schematic and a stepper motor. I just picked up the interface card for a CDC HAWK drive. It has more promise since, I have been able to get in contact with someone who has done board level restorations of the CDC HAWK drive.The only programmable device I recognize is a 8049, which my Expro-60 does not support ( it can read 8749 though) I also do not have a schematic for the PCB.
t does use the DG specific serial IO, so if you do not have a fitting microNova you are out of luck anyway.
I looked around the ceramic 50 pin CG1200i and its pinout makes clear this is not an 8X300. No clue what it could be...