From: "Graeme Gregory" wrote:
So one of my Sams just happens to have a duff drive, I was wondering is
it an easy enough job to dismantle the drive to extract the control
board and hook up a HxC instead?
You'ld have to do a lot of desoldering at the back of the original Citizen
disk drive to remove the original control board as it's directly soldered to
the back of the disk drive. You would then need to solder on a new ribbon
cable and power connector.
I know of one SAM user who uses a HxC, I built them up one of my disk drive
controller boards with extra long cables so he could have the HxC sitting
outside of his SAM. (There'll be photos of that project in the next SAM
Revival)
Kind regards,
Colin
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