Re: Apple II Boot Problem

[James Gray <jamesg@alaska.net>]

Karl DeAngelo wrote:

> Thanks for the advice.  I just purchased a working drive from someone
> else thinking that might have been the problem too but it did not
> help.  The drive makes what I call the boot noise and then just spins.
> It doesn't sound like its trying to extract any data from the disk.
>

Are you using a disk that is known to boot?  Some disks don't have the
operating system on them and so the drive can't find it. They just
spin.... The first noise is the drive itself recalibrating to the
beginning of the disk.

- James - [IMAGE]