Date   : Fri, 08 Sep 2006 12:11:53 +0100
From   : "Mike" <profpep@...>
Subject: Re: Tube File Copying

If they are the SIL (single in Line) type, I've got some and could post
them. I'm not sure if I have any DIL (Dual in Line) ones left.

I've had problems where the termionator paower link is set wrong, and also
where certain drives (some Archive Python tapes drives for instance) have
the lines on the 50 pin, that tey don't use, connected to ground, causing
all kinds of nasties in the cabling.

Check the packs with a test meter - they should read 220 Ohms to the
terminator power rail, (which will connect to 5V eventually), and 330 Ohms
to ground. If the values are too low, then they'll heat up as well as
causing bad reads and writes on the SCSI bus..

Hope this helps

||\/||ike


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ian Wolstenholme" <BBCMailingList@...>
To: <bbc-micro@...>
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 12:35 AM
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Re: Tube File Copying


> It's definitely a worry.  Does anybody know the correct type of
> resistor pack used and how I tell what's in mine?
>
> Best wishes,
>
>
> Ian
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
> To:  bbc-micro@...
> Sent:  07 Sep 2006 23:11:43 +0100
> Subject: [BBC-Micro] Re: Tube File Copying
>
> >Message-ID: <g3SMKLD+zx$EFwlW@...>
>
> Mike Tomlinson <mike@...> wrote:
> > >The resistor pack in the Master SCSI interface runs hot - and I
> > >mean hot, it will burn your fingers if you touch it
> >
> > That _cannot_ be normal. Something's wrong.
>
> Sounds like somebody's put a 1/4A resistor pack in when a 1A pack
> is needed.
>
> -- 
> J.G.Harston - jgh@... - mdfs.net/User/JGH
> BBC IDE Hard Drive Interface - http://mdfs.net/Info/Comp/BBC/IDE
>
>