So first up we pull out the #16716a turn it upside down and indeed see the protective covers, the foam and ahesive. This needs to go as the glue turns corrosive damaging the traces.

#corrosive #glue

Luckily, our glue and foam became extremely dried out and britle, this is a big plus and combined with the minimal corrosion made removal trivial.

I used the plastic sleds as a scraper, being careful to test on a non-critical area hoping the plastic would be chosen to be to soft to damage silkscreen and traces.

This turned out extremely effective and I had most of the board clean in about 3 hours.

Then some thorough cue tip cleaning with isopropyl and we are good to go for this board hopefully. Worst corrosion is a couple of vias which have become untented, I consider myself very lucky.

Next up imaging the IDE harddrive and replacing it. It makes sounds that make me very nervous.

Turns out its not #IDE, its not even 40 pins, the analyzer uses a 3.5 inch 50-pin #SCSI connector.

Possible options, SCSI to USB converter with the necessary 3.5 inch 50-pin to high density 50 pin adapter. This option probably is not going to work very well.

Alternatively we buy a second hand PCI (not PCIe) SCSI adapter and use that on an old machine to make an image.

For this last solution I have high hopes. Currently looking at an Adaptec AHA-2940 or 2904

To replace the drive we can either go fill tilt and convert 50-pin SCSI to IDE and IDE to Sata.

Or we can do something more reasonable and buy a SCSI to SD card board.

The SCSI to sdcard board is about 80 euro.

Rather then some no name Aliexpress SCSI to sdcard converter I am going to go for the #ZuluSCSI blaster

The board looks neat and tidy and the firmware is open-source and configuration seems straightforward.

https://zuluscsi.com/

https://github.com/zuluscsi/zuluscsi-firmware