#: 12979 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    11-Nov-91  00:21:07
Sb: #It's working!
Fm: Jim Peasley 72726,1153
To: Mark Griffith 76070,41 (X)

Mark;

  Please pass this info on to Paul, as I have an unusually hard time contacting
him.

  I have replaced the pallette controller chip on my board and the system is
now operational.  What I found to be the cause of the trouble is that the
aluminum standoff nearest the keyboard connector had worn thru the trace that
runs _very_ close by the mounting hole and was grounding the whole board.  I
used some liquid PVC to re-insulate the trace and also used some nylon spacers
to get the board off the standoffs.

  The original power supply is now powering the setup after I replaced the
original defective fan.  The replacement PS will not switch in without a HD
connected, as the power draw of the single board is just too low.

   There is only one more problem to solve and I'm not quite sure yet what's
happening... drive /d1 now gives 247 seek errors when trying to access that
drive.  It'll do a 'dir' OK, but accessing any file or subdirectory on the disk
results in the 247 seek error.  If I copy a new file over to the disk, it'll
read that OK, but not any of the data created previously. Also, trying to
format a disk in /d1 results in a 246 error.

  In your opinion, do you think that my 'short' could have fried the drive
electronics in a way to give the above errors??

  Thanks,
      ...Jim

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