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The early repair of Agilent 54810A
GGMM:
Coromonadelix,
Thanks for the information.
I will no longer focus on making a backup of the disk for now.
I modified the wiring of the back light to have it either directly to the ground (Active forced) or via the VGA interface (normal mode)
Then I’ll see if there’s anything we can do.
I out my old motherboards, it’s really a shame because they are bigger side of the slots.
I could have put a motherboard more modern as seen on this forum
Anyway I will make a complete uc, exploded mode to clone and save.
Anyway, I would have to put back the VGA card of the 54810A because the connection to the IBM disk is not standard.
I need a little time to do all this junk again. Lol
cdt
coromonadalix:
well your motherboard as isa and pci slots, so far you have 2 (vga and scope interface) who are pci, do you have other cards like gpib or else who are ISA slots ?
on theses the gpib is an isa model, wich can be changed into an pci if you need external control, if not put it aside
you have some compatible motherboards with more punch and peripherals ...
a thread with upgrades / mods ...
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/agilent-54835a-scope-%284-channel-1ghz-4gss%29-repair-uphack/
GGMM:
Coromonadelix,
I prepared a motherboard
It is an Asus P5A with K6 500mhz.
There are 4 pci slots and 2 isa +AGP
I will do a burst mount, the purpose is to recover the data from the IBM disk
As this one is not standard in terms of connectivity, I will put the PCI vga card of the oscillo for connections.
Before I will put a 80 GB disk and install unXP.
I have on USB key all the cloning softs and the drivers.
Then I will quietly transfer to an SSD.
The card will not fit in the oscillo because too wide side connector slots.
We have to find an ATX baby if I want to improve.
It’s a return to the 2000s. LOL. It will rejuvenate us.
cdt
GGMM:
Hello Coromonadelix,
I prepared a 64GB SSD with an IDE adapter loaded with windows XP on an another PC.
I sacrificed an old power supply to recover the cable +5v, +12v and I soldered it.
The setup of the oscilloscope recognizes a hard disk, but does not load because cannot read.
In fact, it recognizes anything as a model (80 GB instead of 64GB)
I think we need to change the setup, a story of number of heads I think.
Good to see.
see pictures
cdt
coromonadalix:
normally the IDE AUTO mode should place everything for you ...
but a motherboard could reject more modern ssd drive(s)
some oldies use IDE SSD with no trim support since some OS'es dont like trim features
you could have tried some ide to compact flash, or IDE DOM (disk on modules), they snap directly on ide plugs male or female ... they offer speed and good compatibility, and come with an 5v cabling, i use them in old P3 era pick and place machines with XP ...
they exist in sata mode too ... SATA DOM ...
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