Date   : Mon, 18 Feb 1991 00:30:13 GMT
From   : csusac!sactoh0!ijpc!ianj@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu (Ian Justman)
Subject: Help: 8" SA-851 Failure

mbeck@AI.MIT.EDU (Mark Becker) writes:

> Thank you for posting the jumper list.  Very much appreciated.

I concur.  I might have to do some fiddling with an SA-851 to get
it to run on a Big Board II.

While I'm on the subject, I'm trying to get a few drives to work
on a Big Board II a friend gave me.  He gave me four 8" drives, 3
SS, one DS.  Two are Memorex SS which don't work at all, one is a
SS Siemens which works perfectly, and a DS Siemens which sorta
works.  I mean sorta because it does not step backward nor does
it home when needed.  I have the strangest feeling that the drive
went south somewhere and I don't know what to look for.  But,
like I said, I have a couple of other 8" floppies which do indeed
work, one a Shugart SA-851, and a Qume Qumetrak 842.  I'd like to
know how to jumper these two buggers so they could work with the
Big Board II aside from drive select which any idot who knows
what he/she/it/other is doing.  I have some docs, and it doesn't
say a thing how to jumper the drives.

Also, does anyone know of software for the Big Board?  From what
I understand, it enjoyed a great deal of popularity in the
Netherlands, and they wrote lots of stuff for it.

Many, MANY thanks in advance.