Re: OT: 3174 Hard Drive

"Guy Sotomayor Jr [email protected] [hercules-390]" <[email protected]> Mon, 25 Nov 2019 10:29:18 -0800
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No.  I’ve only seen the one in -6x models.  It’s individual wires in somewhat of a rat’s nest between the various connectors.

TTFN - Guy

> On Nov 25, 2019, at 10:18 AM, 'Dave Wade' [email protected] [hercules-390] <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Have you seen the cable in the model 2x? Its one of those mylar things  and for some reason it has a 7474 (I think) soldered in and it was a real pain to get the emulator to fit, whereupon the PSU promptly died…
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> From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 
> Sent: 25 November 2019 17:22
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> Subject: Re: [hercules-390] OT: 3174 Hard Drive
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> It would have been nice if IBM had actually used ribbon cables rather than just individual wires.  It would have been easier to figure out the cabling though I don’t expect the wiring to be all that complicated.
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>> On Nov 25, 2019, at 9:12 AM, 'Dave Wade' [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> [hercules-390] <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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>> No rush, I have been sent a photo off list. I just got the emulator working in my model 2x rack mount controller and that’s actually what I want to move.
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>> From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 
>> Sent: 25 November 2019 16:42
>> To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: [hercules-390] OT: 3174 Hard Drive
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>> Yes, I have a -6x with an HDD.  Actually it’s an emulator.  I have 2 different HDDs (that were supposedly working but I could never get it to boot from it after installation.  However, with the emulator all is good..  ;-)
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>> I’d have to open up my 3174-6x and pull the cables out in order to photograph it…given my current workload, I wouldn’t expect it to be soon.  :-(
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>>> On Nov 25, 2019, at 6:17 AM, 'Dave Wade' [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> [hercules-390] <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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>>> Does anyone have one of the larger 3174 shelf models, so a 5X or 6X with a with a hard drive? I have two but I am a bit worried about how long my rare 2.4 Mb diskettes will last. 
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>>> I have a model 2x with a hard drive, but the cables are different and was wondering if any one had photos of cabling for hard drive in a model 5x or 6x… 
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>>> Dave Wade
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>>> G4UGM & EA7KAE
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