On 11/05/13 18:41, Colin Piggot wrote: > 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) > Ah interesting, I would not want to do irreversible damage to the original drive when its probably a minor issue.
What would you charge for such an adapted board? G
