ccastbs@prism.gatech.EDU (Shannon Bell) (12/01/89)
old drive cards (one Apple disk II and card, one Franklin and franklin card)
plugged them in, and checked them out. Both of them failed utterly
to read a nice blank but formatted prodos disk, so I used the
copy II+ 8.0 utilities to check drive speed. The Franklin turns in a
steady 002.2, and the apple drive runs arount from 0 to 250, randomly.
Could this be a problem with the drive itself, or the drive card, or
simply old age, or what? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Shannon Bell
PO Box 36266 Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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Internet: ccastbs@prism.gatech.educhaosboss@pro-lep.cts.com (Circuit Breaker) (12/14/89)
Hmmm... Talking about all these drive failures make me glad that even if my drive died, I could still boot up ProTERM and still call out. How can I do this? I think you know already, but for those that don't, here goes.. I have a GS-Ram Plus (w/2Meg) and a RamKeeper. Booting from "ROMdisk" is a dream. Faster than any Hard Disk boot I've ever seen on a GS... Not only that, but my boot disk is larger than 800k (895k I think) PLenty of room for the System and ProTERM, with some room left over for small text files or whatever... __ |__ (__ |__) _____ UUCP: crash!pro-lep!chaosboss ARPA: crash!pro-lep!chaosboss@nosc.mil INET: chaosboss@pro-lep.cts.com