DG Eclipse available... (Second try)

[Mark Davidson]

On Apr 19, 2005, at 9:58 PM, Tom Jennings wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Mark Davidson wrote:
>
>>  My big question is how to remove the front or side panels.  I know 
>> the front panels should "pop off", but I tried pulling one or two and 
>> they are on tight.
>
> PULL HARD!
>

Yeah, I thought so... I'll try to get them off tonight.

>
>> 3)  Pull out the drive and check the heads... and pray they locked 
>> the heads down; once that's verified, I'd unlock them
>
> Buy some lintfree swabs, 99% alcohol and clean 'em anyways. I
> found it simply easier to remove the big metal cover from the
> drive, loosen the screws holding down the plastic cover of the
> heads, slide it back 1" (without otherwise removing it) and
> getting a good clean shot at inspection and cleaning.
>
Ok... I'll probably end up taking some photos so I can make sure I'm 
doing the right thing.

> At least my 6070 has a toggle switch inside, on the servo board,
> that disables the head servos; DISABLE, power the drive up switch
> to RUN and let it purge for an hour; this is recommended in the
> service docs. The platters will spin, brush cycle runs, air pumps,
> presumably flings off all the dust.
>
>
Appreciate the advice... I'll try to get into the drive by this 
weekend, and run a test on it.

>> 4)  Apply power individually to the units (tape, CPU, disk).  Make 
>> sure they power up ok.
>
> Most peripherals are pretty much stanalone; the tape drives will
> mount, BOT, rewind, etc with the CPU off. It helps.
>
Yes, I remember that.  And yes, that does help!

>
>> Suggestions are most welcome... it's been years since I worked with 
>> one of these beasts.  I'm only a "semi" hardware guy... I can do some 
>> checking, but I don't have a lot of diagnostic experience with these 
>> machines.
>
> I'm OK with hardware but I'm no DG expert. This is my only
> minicomputer.  Bruce Ray knows a lot though. I assume you've seen
> www.simulogics.com...
>
>
Oh, Bruce has been VERY helpful!  I'm keeping in constant touch with 
him!

By the way, someone has a VERY nice MV/10000 setup available on EBay... 
see http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5187714393 for a 
complete system.  It's in St Paul, MN and would be a wonderful machine 
to save!

Mark