On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 11:03:17PM +0100, Graeme Gregory wrote: > 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? > So just to follow up, Colin made me the extended adapter board and my HxC is now working nicely on with the Coupe.
And if anyone else tries this you might want the hint that the coupe uses DS1 to access its disk just to confuse matters. Graeme
