[Coco] Looking for Glenside IDE Controller documentation

[Ron Klein]

Hi Bill,

LED not needed, but nice to know what it was for.  Point taken on the
alignment of the card edge in the slot of the MPI or Coco.  Certainly don't
want to short anything out!  I did reach out to John Strong to see if he
might have any cases for this device, but no such luck.  He did say he had
one of these cards, but not sure where it was... :)  Unfortunately, there
probably isn't much demand for a case for this device, so it's doubtful
we'll see anything for it anytime soon.

Completely understandable about Brian's lack of response.  He certainly has
many more important things to take care of at the moment.

Thanks!

-Ron


On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 8:56 PM, Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
wrote:

> Ron, On the Glenside IDE, the "L1" pins are for the power LED. Not really
> needed unless you want one.
> In using the Glenside unit in an MPI, be carefull. The board has no guides
> so it's easy to shift it too far right or left (same in the Coco slot but
> not as bad) and short the pins.
> I have mine configured in NitrOS9 for 2x 4gig partitions and haven't had a
> problem other than it getting bumped and losing connection.
> Brian Goers has some of the headers for the empty slots (I think) or can
> tell you where to get them. Mine only has one installed, but it's in an MPI
> so it doesn't matter anyway. I have use it with the disk controller on the
> header and it worked great, but I needed my CocoMIDI pak and Orch90 plugged
> in so I switched to the MPI.
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> I still haven't heard from Brian, but I think he was settling his mother's
> estate, from the last message I saw, so it may be a while before he's back
> online. It's my understanding that they're going to do another run of the
> boards in the future.
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