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- CD32 Disk Drive Adaptor Installation Notes
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- - Use low profile IC sockets for all the IC's. That way
- you can swap chips if one goes faulty (or you put it
- in the wrong place!). It's well worth the extra few cents.
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- - There are a few capacitors on the board that are not shown
- in the circuit diagram, these are just for power supply
- decoupling, to stop noise affecting the logic gates. Any
- reasonable values should be OK ( eg. 100nF ).
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- - Although The PCB is drilled for a 4 way resistor pack (R1 on
- the overlay), 4 invidual resistors could also be used.
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- - To make the plug that goes into the kickstart ROM socket, get
- a few old IC's and cut the pins off them. Then solder these
- pins to the PCB on top of the ROM socket pins. Make sure
- each pin is flush with the PCB, as there's not much height
- to spare. To make it easier to hold the pins upright, plug
- them into another socket while soldering them.
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- - For some of the connections to the motherboard you will
- need to use very fine wire, eg. wire-wrap wire. The wires
- will be going into feed-throughs on the motherboard, close
- to the expansion connector. There are a lot of tracks on that
- part of the motherboard, so look carefully at the picture. Make
- sure that you check your connections with a meter BEFORE you
- power on your CD32, as a wrong connection could blow it up! It
- would also be a good idea to check for shorts on all the address
- and data lines.
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- - There are a couple of jumpers that should only be installed
- if using an external drive, these are shown as dotted lines on
- the overlay. You also have to cut the track going from pin 8 of
- U7 to pin 34 of the disk drive connector. The ribbon cable to
- the drive will be a direct connection for an internal drive, but
- when going to a 23 pin connector for an external drive you will
- have to separate out about an inch to allow the correct routing.
- Don't connect the ground wires of the ribbon cable to the external
- connector. (ie. leave all odd wires 1-33 disconnected ).
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- - To pick up +12v, Ground, and +5v for the drive power, there
- is an area on the motherboard close to the power switch, marked
- XU2. The square pad is +12V, the middle pad is ground and the
- other round one is +5V. Use heavy wires to reduce voltage drop.
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- - All the PCB layouts show the TOP of the board, don't get
- confused and wire things backwards! You can make yor own
- board by printing out the 'cd32_floppy.pcb' picture to a
- Laser printer. The picture should be printed at 150 dpi, and
- smoothing should be ON. This should then produce a 1:1 image
- as seen from the top of the board. If you want a bottom view
- then reverse the picture.
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- - When working on the CD32 you will need to disconnect the
- CD-ROM mechanism. It is connected to the motherboard with
- a stiff ribbon cable. To unplug it, pull up the white clamp
- on the connector on the board, then the cable will slip out
- easily. When replacing it, straighten out the cable and make
- sure the clamp is up. Then carefully plug in the cable and
- push the clamp back down. The tricky bit is that the clamp
- may drop down while you are trying to insert the cable. If so
- you have to start again because it is impossible to get the
- cable in properly otherwise. ( Some CD32's have a connector
- with no clamp, in which case you just plug it in ... :-)
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- - On many of the CD32s I have worked on, I have found that two
- capacitors have been installed backwards. They are the 1000uF
- electrolytics that go between power and ground, next to the
- power switch. Naturally they don't like reverse polarity, and
- tend to boil dry when the unit has been used. I have found that
- the CD32 works fine without them, so I recommend removing them.
- ( why did the factory put them in backwards? because the overlay
- designations on the motherboard are wrong! )
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