Just realized I never followed up on this. So I got the XT-IDE card and it works wonderfully with my DOM. I've been happily booting to that for the last year. Has the side effect of leaving the IDE connector open for a CD drive :) Thanks a lot for all the inputs.
Dang...this is awesome.
How many boards did you have to print to get them for $2? This would obviously be a MUCH easier way than what I was trying to do if it's cost effective...
I don’t know if it’s relevant but I recently had a similar issue. I cleaned the contacts and made sure the springy one at the top was bent down enough to hold the battery well and hit it with a little deoxit (mine was showing a bit of corrosion from a previously leaked battery) and that had me...
I would speculate that the original connector was five positions with only those wires populated in the connector. I have several like that. But like caluser2000 said, if it works it works!
Are you sure? It and the printer look to me like they’ve been painted.
As in:
https://www.applefritter.com/node/4089
And
https://www.applefritter.com/node/396