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Kc2iLq
Ultimate Member
Registered: December 2002
Location: Grid Square FN30ep
Posts: 1,901
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October, 21, 2003 11:09pm
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It looks like it has IDE and floppy headers, so try plugging something in. What's there to lose?
-Kc2iLq
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RedFury
still smoke free
Registered: June 2002
Location: MinneSOta
Posts: 5,240
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October, 21, 2003 11:19pm
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looks like a drive tester to me.
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sixf00t4
is 4 f00t secks
Registered: August 2002
Location: Da Burgh
Posts: 4,587
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October, 22, 2003 12:02am
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it's a bomb!!!
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The Terk
Senior Member
Registered: July 2002
Location: Texas A&M
Posts: 611
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October, 22, 2003 12:37am
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"it's a bomb!!!"
:runs outa building!!: from the size and colors, looks like it was developed in the 80's... back in the day, 5 1/4" drives, tape drives... lol
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butch81385
Now in the nicer ghetto
Registered: July 2003
Location: PA
Posts: 10,503
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from what i can find, it is a tester for either hard drives or floppy style (and tape) drives. does it have an option for adjusting speed? that was used to make sure that the drive could wor at its speed "F" and double "2F". thats about all i can find out... not too bad since this was made before i was born...
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smapdi
Member
Registered: October 2001
Location: Kearny, NJ
Posts: 145
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I think it's a tester for hard drives only, nothing to do with floppy drives. The large connector that looks like a standard IDE is the data line and the smaller one that looks like a floppy connector is the controller cable (not 100% positive about it but that's how it was with the 286 computers I've worked on).
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dunbar
PCLinuxOS 2009.1
Registered: February 2001
Posts: 3,589
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If it has 2 connectors and the largest connection is not enough connections for a standard IDE header, then this might be a MFM or RLL or ESDI drive tester.... all 3 of those interfaces used 2 cables to each drive.
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peterwilkes
Member
Registered: June 2003
Location: Stafford, UK
Posts: 229
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I have no idea what it does but I did manage to find a web page http://www.diamondsystems.com/products/proto104 about a simalar device. It is somthing to do with prototyping a PC interface possible to do with a HDD or FDD. Interesting.
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stant093
Senior Member
Registered: November 2002
Location: vt
Posts: 819
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the first drive connector is for 50pin scsi cables, second one fits floppy....it says disk drive excerciser, maybe drives used to get fat back in the day :P
kinda a old relic...i dont know what to do with it...
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Scott Tiger
Where's the beef?
Registered: March 2002
Location: Southwest, VA
Posts: 3,585
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October, 24, 2003 11:43am
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Rating: 10
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I'd say it's a paperweight.
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mikef2005
Junior Member
Registered: December 2004
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December, 13, 2004 12:54pm
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Rating: 8
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This is a floppy disk execiser. The large connector is for 8" drives, the smaller for 5 1/4 drives. It is powered by a socketed 6502 processor. I own one, but do not have the documentation.
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samshaffer
Junior Member
Registered: July 2009
Posts: 1
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Hi, this is the EX2000 Floppy Disk Drive tool which is used to test and align floppy disk drives for IBM or Mac computers.
It needs to be connected to a non-switching power supply providing +12. +5, -5 and ground.
The tester is designed to be used with a oscilloscope with minimum requirements of 60 MHz, dual channel with inverse and add.
You use the device to align the heads of a double or single sided, standard or High Density floppy disk drive. It also tests hysteresis, track 0 function as well as many other things. Manufactured by Proto PC of Minnesota in the mid-1980s.
It is connected to the floppy drive through a standard 34-pin cable, with DC power being supplied seperately to the drive to be tested.
If anyone wishes a copy of the manual e-mail me at sshaffer@stanleyworks.com
It does not test hard disk drives of any type. It is designed for 5.25 and 3.5 inch floppies only.
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