Alpha Micro's Eagle 300 rises from the dead after a botched ZuluSCSI swap
Refurb weekend II: Alpha Micro Eagle 300 and friends
Six years after fixing the power supply and fan on his 68EC030-based Alpha Microsystems Eagle 300, the author tried swapping in a ZuluSCSI and the machine stopped booting entirely. This sequel covers the recovery, a lucky replacement find, and converting the rest of the fleet — including the ColdFire-based Eagle 450, the first ColdFire server ever built — to solid-state boot disks, with 68K CPU and storage benchmarks and lessons from his mistakes.
I was worried I'd negligently blown one of its two main system boards and that meant I needed another.