Post #664023
2026-03-16 00:23 UTC
Onto the second 54813B scope. This one immediately boots up to a BIOS screen. It has 512MB instead of 256MB of memory. But it doesn’t detect a HD.
This makes sense… because when I open it up, it doesn’t have one. It also doesn’t have any of the IDE cables or the special adapter board to connect to the LS120 floppy drive.
I think I’ll simply give up on the LS120 floppy drive, but 2 IDE cables and a compact flash adapter.
That concludes the work for today.
Replies (2)
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@tom_verbeure@mastodon.social 2026-03-16 00:34
Previous owner had a cat. There is no other explanation.
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@tom_verbeure@mastodon.social 2026-03-18 06:48
Instead of a parallel IDE cable and CompactFlash adapter card, there's this elegant solution of an adapter that plugs straight into the motherboard, no cable required. Works really well! So now there's only 1 flat cable for the CDROM, and the BIOS detects both.