Subject: Re: Atari TT, disk termination, and NetBSD
To: None <leo@wau.mis.ah.nl>
From: maximum entropy <entropy@zippy.bernstein.com>
List: port-atari
Date: 09/12/1997 16:11:41
>From: Leo Weppelman <leo@wau.mis.ah.nl>
>
>Yes, you should make sure that the resistor packs near the controller are
>removed. On most TT's they were never inserted in the first place (according
>to Atari ;-) As to the location:
Yes, they were installed in mine.
> +---------------+
> | | '|
> | | | (The ' gives the location of the 3 packs - note
> |===============| that this was supposed to be a top view...)
Thanks! I found them thanks to your diagram, and pulled them. Are
they actually all the same part? I noticed the middle pack in mine
had a slightly different part number from the other two.
>Removing the packs involves removing the whole bloody shielding :-(
Fascinating, they installed the resistor packs, but it looks like they
didn't install any shielding over the motherboard. Maybe they just
randomly left out one or the other :-)
>Exactly - unless you write the ACSI driver first ;-)
I'd love to do this, but I'm not sure I have the necessary skills.
I'm still groping my way around the kernel source, just starting to
get a feel for it. The closest I've come to writing any device
drivers in the past was hacking on the serial code in MiNT... but if I
can get NetBSD installed on this box at all, I'll try my hand at it.
Thanks!
entropy
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