Re: Faulty hard disk ?

["Roger Johnstone" <rojaws@mac.com>]

In article <1ev7rfo.gmt8jr1jbtt2rN%colin.leroy@free.no-spam.fr>, 
colin.leroy@free.no-spam.fr (Colin Leroy) wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I just got a 20MB hard disk for my Apple IIc. It seems to spin up, the
> LED flashes, etc..., but no way to see it.
>
> I thought it should appear as drive 2, port 6, but I can't be sure ;
> after having looked all menus of my Prodos floppy, nothing helped.

On the IIc, SmartPort devices (hard drives and 3.5" floppy disk drives) are
mapped to slot 5.  If you have no 3.5" drive then the hard drive will be
drive 1. I don't know what order the drives will appear in if you have a
3.5" drive.

> Since a long time I forgot everything about Apple IIc, of course :-) and
> I lost all my ten years old docs.
>
> Has someone here an idea, or good URLs to help ?

If you boot into ProDOS and go to the BASIC prompt and type CAT,S5,D1 it
should show a catalog of the hard drive (assuming it is the first drive
connected to slot 5). If the drive is not formatted properly it will
probably say I/O ERROR. If it can't find a drive at this slot and drive
location it should say DEVICE NOT CONNECTED.

> Thanks in advance, and sorry for my english,

You're welcome, and your English is infinitely better than my French!

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Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand

Apple II - Future Cop:LAPD - Warcraft II
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As a computer, I find your faith in technology amusing.