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Re: Fried Disk II Controller?



On Feb 17, 2:57 am, Chris  Barnes <cc.bar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> However, when I
> connected the second drive, and then powered up the computer, I got
> the regular 'beep' but there was also a pop and the smell of some
> circuit frying somewhere.
Been there, done that.  :-)  You shifted the connector on the header
by one pin, with disastrous results.  You might pull the drive apart
and take a look (and a sniff) at the analog board - I think you'll
probably find a chip that's blown.  On mine, it was the 74LS125.  Did
it to more than one myself, I'm proud to say. :-/  I never had to do
any work on my Disk II cards, so I think the problem is most likely
isolated to your drive(s).