{"id":1051,"date":"2016-08-15T23:21:41","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T04:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulcarbone.com\/blog\/?p=1051"},"modified":"2020-06-20T12:42:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T17:42:03","slug":"heathkit-h89a-continued-boot-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulcarbone.com\/blog\/heathkit-h89a-continued-boot-failures\/","title":{"rendered":"Heathkit H89A &#8211; Continued boot failures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve tried just about everything, and the consensus is that I&#8217;ve just got bad disks.\u00a0 A bunch of people on the <a href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\/forum\/#!topic\/sebhc\/ubGuwHg6kyI\">SEBHC Board <\/a>has been super helpful, a few even offering to send me boot-disks.\u00a0 I took one gentleman (Ken) up on his offer, so hopefully that&#8217;ll get me up and running.<br \/>\nLee suggested some lines on the floppy connector to probe, which I&#8217;ll get to tomorrow.\u00a0 May even sick <a href=\"https:\/\/paulcarbone.com\/blog\/?p=193\">the 7D01<\/a> on this&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sebhc.lesbird.com\/documentation\/hardware\/QuickData\/QuikData-H_Z37_H89-clone.pdf\">This manual <\/a>has me convinced that the BIOS is correct. It&#8217;s a newer one to go along with the floppy controller card, which just isn&#8217;t referenced in any of the printed documentation I have.<br \/>\nKen confirmed my understanding that the floppy drive is a fairly dumb device, and it&#8217;s the controller that determines sector firmness, track count, &amp; density.\u00a0 He&#8217;s even shared wiring instructions to get 3.5&#8243; drives.\u00a0 I&#8217;m eager to try some newer drives and disks once I get up and running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve tried just about everything, and the consensus is that I&#8217;ve just got bad disks.\u00a0 A bunch of people on the SEBHC Board has been super helpful, a few even offering to send me boot-disks.\u00a0 I took one gentleman &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/paulcarbone.com\/blog\/heathkit-h89a-continued-boot-failures\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulcarbone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulcarbone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulcarbone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulcarbone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulcarbone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paulcarbone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1052,"href":"https:\/\/paulcarbone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions\/1052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulcarbone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulcarbone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulcarbone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulcarbone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}