Re: Vulcan ][e won't boot. Help!

[dalloff@gcfn.org (Dave Althoff Jr)]

eeastman@apple2.com wrote:
: Quoting Jeff Blakeney from a similar thread:
: "There are a few possibilities.  The boot blocks on your hard drive may
: have been wiped out.  There used to be a virus for the IIgs that did
: this.  If you have a block copying program such as Block Warden from
: the ProSel disks, you could try copying blocks 0 and 1 from a working
: boot floppy to blocks 0 and 1 respectively on the hard drive and try
: rebooting.

: If you can, I would suggest backing up the important stuff and
: reformatting the hard drive and install everything again from scratch.

Worth a try.  I'll see if I have a ][e-friendly ProDOS-friendly block copy
program around here someplace (LOTS of DOS 3.3 stuff, but that won't work
with the Vulcan...) 

The problem seems to be related to an attempt to write to a directory with
a really long pathname, something like 
/RAVEN/COASTER/REPORTS/R1996/VACATION/ADVENTUREWORLD.  That trashed
something, and made it so that I couldn't get to one of the directories on
the disk at all.  I'll see what I can do, and report back.

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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