Since screwing the thing back together I haven't had alot of time to use my C64, however I did play a few rounds of Giana Sisters, fired up a few demos and ran the odd program.
After reading that a new firmware update was released I downloaded it, copied it onto the CF card and then plugged the CF card into the Cardo. To do a firmware update you must have the .bin file in the root directory of the first partition of the master drive. My CF is configured as a slave device, so I needed to copy it from the CF to the HD. This is where I ran into a little trouble, I hadn't used JiffyDOS in a while and had forgotten what the appropriate commands where, and when I briefly looked on the net I wasn't able to find a suitable file manager. So out came the JD manual and eventually I found what I was looking for.
That done, I rebooted the Cardco and the activity light blinked just like the instructions for firmware updating said it would. Reboot again and check the error channel, all good, all up to date :)
It does raise the question of file managers though. I had nothing in my collection and a brief search on the net didnt provide any answers. Does anyone out there know of a decent file manager? Ideally something with split windows for source/destination, where you can tag the file(s) you wan't to send to the destination drive. Please leave a comment if you are aware of such a program.
Anyway, so far so good. I'll take a photo of it installed with the rest of my Commodore gear and post it in a few days.
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