I tried attaching but the file is to large. I got permission to share it with you, just have to figure out how to do it outside the forum file size requirements.
I will check with the person I got it from. He specifically said he would give it to me if I didn't "sell" the information. I can ask him if I can share it and see what he says. It should be OK, but I want to make sure. He was very helpful, and I don't want to take unfair advantage of that.
I am relatively new to the forum and don't mean to hack threads, but I don't know how to respond or start a new thread or join one that is appropriate to the discussion we are having.
Just getting back to you. I got a PDF of the service manual for the 3000 and in it they said propane could be used instead of the special gas by changing some of the setup parameters. FWIW. I also know a guy who changed the setup on his oxygen sensor to use a less expensive non-proprietary...
I am restoring a SUN MCA3000 engine analyzer and in the day SUN offered a HD (miniscribe 3650) as an option to using 2 3.5" floppys as input for programming. I am not savy enough to know how it was integrated into the system. What I do know is that I have a floppy/HD card in the machine and a...
I am in the process of restoring an engine analyzer and thinking I would like to input programs from HD rather than floppy discs. Original documentation called for MiniScribe, but any assistance with a similar HD wjould be greatly appreciated.
Well, a lot of chasing my tail for nothing. Today I found a floppy label floating around inside the machine. I didn't know what it was. I also had this mystery disc stashed with the backup disks and some disks that handwritten cryptic labels on them. I had looked at the directories on them...
I appreciate your help. I had some time to reflect on all of this last night. Before going deeper, I considered my problem. Originally, I wanted to get the floppy drives working so I could load the programs from the floppy discs that came with the equipment. I have gone way off from that...
OK. Well after spending all day looking and learning I have made a decision. I will get an XT-IDE card and an interface adapter and use it to drive an SD card. I could use it to drive my HD, but the documentation on how to do it with the SD card seems to be more friendly to me, the novice...
I am reading and watching videos about XTIDE. It seems that may be a way to go, either with the Caviar 21600 or maybe getting an IDE to flash adapter and plugging it onto the controller board. If I use the Caviar HD, I would need to get an external floppy drive to create a bootable floppy to...
I looked up the specs on the 4 HD's listed on the "Field Installation Instructions" (see link in previous post) and they were all 42-43MB HD's. with varying numbers of heads and 17 sectors per track. The WD Caviar 21600 I have has 16 heads with 63 sectors per track and 1624.66 MB. That does...
I have been trying out Copilot AI and asking it questions about the MCA-3000 and one of the references it brought up was this:
https://www.snaponequipment.com/Common/Instructions/Product/MDSHDCD.pdf
Would like your take, particularly on the part that addresses setting up the HD utilysing a...