Re: 3.5 inch disk drive for IIgs (apple brand) - Not workingproperly! Help!

[Hugh Hood <hughhood@earthlink.net>]

Sam,

FWIW, I've got several IIGS systems, all of which are equipped with Rev D
RamFASTS with the SCSI-only Zip 100 drives and 3.5" floppy drives, and I've
never experienced a problem with the 3.5" drives not working, as you are.

Most of my machines have the 800kB drives on the built-in controller, but a
couple have 1.44mB drives on Superdrive cards. All have worked well together
with no conflicts for many, many years. Knock on wood.

So, I don't have a good answer for your problem. Have you eliminated the
'goofy' type of stuff - e.g. Bad diskettes, stray wiring around the rear
panel connector, or perhaps you have 1.44mB diskettes with (2) holes instead
of an 800kb with (1) hole inserted into a Superdrive mechanism inside your
external drive case - you know, things that you wouldn't ordinarily
consider? 

Forgive me, I really stretching here. Aint troubleshooting grand?


Hugh Hood






in article powergs-1286835046@macgui.com, Sam Latella at powergs@macgui.com
wrote on 10/11/10 5:10 PM:

> I tested 3 othe drives with the IIgs.  I still think its not the controller
> or the drive itself.
> 
> Everything worked well before.  The other item which could be suspect is I
> have a Ramfast revD v3.01f working properly with a scsi drive, and I hooked
> up a Zip drive recently to the Ramfast as well... Both items work fine, but
> doing some research I found that the Zip Drive could conflict the the Apple
> 3.5 drive.... Anyone else have these results?  If so, what would be the fix
> besides taking the Zip Drive off the Ramfast?
> 
> Thanks,
> Sam