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- From: hardaker@teal.ece.ucdavis.edu (Wes Hardaker)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: My A3000-SCSI bus died. Help?
- Date: 26 Jan 1996 09:19:53 -0800
- Organization: UCDavis ECE Dept.
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- So I was testing the voltage at pin 25 (to pin 24) which gave a zero
- voltage. Sigh... Diode problem. Then, to make matters worse, when I
- turned the machine back on after hooking everything back up, the SCSI
- light comes on and stays on. The 'where to get kickstart image'
- requester does not come up. So I take everything back apart and
- disconnect the two internal drives from the bus and turn the power
- back on. This time the drives spin up, the kickstart requester comes
- up. This means somehow I must have fried something.
-
- I then went in and clipped the diode, though I doubt that would help
- (and it didn't). I also checked the resistivity across it. Zero in
- both directions (ie, blown diode). Connecting either of the two
- drives has the same effect. Continuous SCSI light and the drive fails
- to spin up.
-
- Now, the question is, what did I blow? My guess, judging from the
- schematic in the manual, is that it has to be the WD33C93A chip (below
- the chip is written U800 I think... Sort of fading). Someone the
- other day mentioned something about a friend having a similar diode
- problem and frying some traces on the mother-board. If that person
- reads this, could you contact me with some details about which trace?
-
- I haven't gone in to take the machine apart, because, as we all know
- with 3000's its no light job. I hope to get to that on Saturday. I
- was hoping to hear some other suggestions about what might be wrong.
-
- Assuming I do have to replace the chip or the DMAC chip, the hard part
- is going to be finding the parts. Sigh... I'm open to suggestions
- there too (mail order or California based companies).
-
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