A good friend gave me a Decmate II some time back. I have never gotten it to work. Swapped in a known good floppy drive. Nothing. I know the HD is faulty.
It either does not spin up at all or spins up then back down. Disconnected it thinking maybe it would force it to go to the floppy. Nope. Have removed all boards
for inspection but nothing obvious. How does one do any board debug with the way it's designed to have the mainboard hidden? The power supply cable is
much too short to allow pulling the mainboard out and attaching it to the removed board. I'd like to see this work as I have never used one. It even has the
CP/M expansion board. Thanks for any suggestions. I do have an older scope and logic analyzer if I had some way to use them with this.
Tim R
It either does not spin up at all or spins up then back down. Disconnected it thinking maybe it would force it to go to the floppy. Nope. Have removed all boards
for inspection but nothing obvious. How does one do any board debug with the way it's designed to have the mainboard hidden? The power supply cable is
much too short to allow pulling the mainboard out and attaching it to the removed board. I'd like to see this work as I have never used one. It even has the
CP/M expansion board. Thanks for any suggestions. I do have an older scope and logic analyzer if I had some way to use them with this.
Tim R