Woah... Notice the small screw between two resistors at the top center of the picture?

That place is usually hidden by the VME slot cover, so it must have been there for quite some time... Guess I'm lucky it never shorted anything out on the main board...

Not quite the optimal placement for the connector that fetches /INT and /XDS1...
Maybe next time I should check cable lengths before cutting a pair from the leftover pile that has the kind of connector I need exactly in half (so I can potentially use the other half for something else, I thought).

Also the 2MB ST-RAM card is now tethered to the main board...

Let's try this....

Hrm, doesn't seem to like the Microdrive, but at least nothing burns up or explodes... IDE interface is detected, but no devices.

That feeling when all your IDE cables have that one fucking blocked socket, and you can't use them on a connector that has all the pins...

Found an old cable without the mounting protection... And it seems the Thunder works with a real IDE drive... So I guess I'll have to try a couple more hardware combinations.

Agh, so the ATARITT kernel of NetBSD/atari doesn't include Falcon IDE support (because why would it)...

Haha... Good thing I ended up opening that old PC case, which turned out to be the old mail server - AMD K6II/233 and 160MB of RAM in 4 * 32MB and 2 * 16MB EDO modules... So the TT now has 64 MB with two of the bigger modules from that.

Oh hello back... Networking with the Riebl card is still alive too, so it seems the Lightning card doesn't interfere on the VME bus.

@galaxis oh shit I killed one laptop mainboard that way once - after what was supposed to be a super easy keyboard change