dkedrowitsch
Experienced Member
I spent a good amount of time getting this thing fixed up and working as it should.
The original 20meg Rodime seems to have media damage I assume to be from not being parked and banged around. So it's been retired until I get a chance to do a fresh low level format and Spinrite treatment to see how bad the damage is.
It's been replaced with a mint Miniscribe 3650 (my favorite hard drive of all time) RLL'ed on a Seagate ST22R controller @ 1:1 interleave, sporting some decent sustained transfer rates.
As suggested, I swapped the T128 8-bit SCSI controller out for a DTC 3180 16-bit controller which currently has nothing connected to it. I may use an external SCSI CDROM in the future, or perhaps a SCSI tape drive.
Anyway, here's the current configuration and some new pictures.
IBM 5170 - 8MHz + math coprocessor and 1989 AMI BIOS
INTEL RAM expansion board w/1.5 megs
Tesing 8000 16-bit VGA adapter
CMS AT Serial/Parallel adapter
DTC 3180 16-bit SCSI controller
Seagate ST22R RLL ST412 controller
Miniscribe 3650 ST412 hard drive RLL formatted - approx 60 megs
Epson 3.5" + 5.25" HDD Combo Floppy drive
MS-DOS 5.0
Since the 5.25" drives that came in it look like hell and I'm afraid it will trash my disks in it, I opted to use a spare combo drive I had laying around. Although it doesn't look stock, I figured the extra drive bay will be handy for a tape drive or something. I need to find a filler panel in the meantime.
Anyway, here are some pictures of it with the nicer lid I got this afternoon, the AMI BIOS eproms I programmed, and the replacement RAM. The lid could use some attention with a magic eraser, but it looks 1000% better already. There are high reas version of these pictures in my gallery if anyone is interested. HERE
The original 20meg Rodime seems to have media damage I assume to be from not being parked and banged around. So it's been retired until I get a chance to do a fresh low level format and Spinrite treatment to see how bad the damage is.
It's been replaced with a mint Miniscribe 3650 (my favorite hard drive of all time) RLL'ed on a Seagate ST22R controller @ 1:1 interleave, sporting some decent sustained transfer rates.
As suggested, I swapped the T128 8-bit SCSI controller out for a DTC 3180 16-bit controller which currently has nothing connected to it. I may use an external SCSI CDROM in the future, or perhaps a SCSI tape drive.
Anyway, here's the current configuration and some new pictures.
IBM 5170 - 8MHz + math coprocessor and 1989 AMI BIOS
INTEL RAM expansion board w/1.5 megs
Tesing 8000 16-bit VGA adapter
CMS AT Serial/Parallel adapter
DTC 3180 16-bit SCSI controller
Seagate ST22R RLL ST412 controller
Miniscribe 3650 ST412 hard drive RLL formatted - approx 60 megs
Epson 3.5" + 5.25" HDD Combo Floppy drive
MS-DOS 5.0
Since the 5.25" drives that came in it look like hell and I'm afraid it will trash my disks in it, I opted to use a spare combo drive I had laying around. Although it doesn't look stock, I figured the extra drive bay will be handy for a tape drive or something. I need to find a filler panel in the meantime.
Anyway, here are some pictures of it with the nicer lid I got this afternoon, the AMI BIOS eproms I programmed, and the replacement RAM. The lid could use some attention with a magic eraser, but it looks 1000% better already. There are high reas version of these pictures in my gallery if anyone is interested. HERE
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