Mounting new hardware in vintage hardware

[Jim Leonard]

Chuck Guzis wrote:
> There are obviously adapters, and then there are adapters.  I pefer the
> ones that are a complete tray, rather than just two U-shaped pieces, as the
> tray type usually includes bottom-mount holes for drives, which, AFAIK,
> will always work.

Follow-up: I received some very nice offers, but after some 
basement-diving I was able to unearth a pair.  They were obviously meant 
for floppy drives, but they will suffice.  (I found a pair specifically 
for hard drives because they had many more holes on the bottom, 
including one that lined up perfectly with that bizarre 
recessed-by-an-inch hole in the bottom of the case, but they curl upward 
and prevent the front black front panel from fitting so I set those aside.)

Now that I've got it all nice and tightly mounted, I have found that the 
ADP50L, for some dumb reason I obviously didn't test throroughly enough 
to notice, won't boot the machine from the drive.  You can boot from a 
floppy and interact with the drive just fine, but it won't boot from 
that controller.  It has a BIOS, so WTF?  Argh!!

I will probably stick the Data Tech MFM controller/ST-225 combo back in 
just so I can boot it without floppies, then jumper the IDE controller 
to an alternate ROM address and hope I can see both of them...  I'll 
also get that panel back on in the process :-)
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