Re: disk stuff (Re: GS, //e, and mystery cards)

[gkomatsu@Hawaii.Edu (Galen Tatsuo Komatsu)]

In article <5nmaug$1h38@nntp6.u.washington.edu>, Derek Peschel <dpeschel@u.washington.edu> wrote:
>In article <5nm4ru$ev3@news.Hawaii.Edu>, >Galen Tatsuo Komatsu <gkomatsu@Hawaii.Edu> wrote:
>>...any special trick to booting 16 sector disks on a ][ and ][plus?
>>(I grew up on the //e with the privileges of whopping 140k disks, 64k
>>on board, lower-case text, auto repeat, and these keys: `[]\ =^)

>No, there's no special trick.  It works the same way as on a //e --
>stick the disk in, turn the computer on, close the drive door.  The
>only snag would arise if you have a ][ with the old disk-controller
>ROMs that can't read 16-sector disks.  In that case, booting them is
>rather difficult. :)

	So, just what am I doing wrong?  I plugged the disk controller
into slot 6 of the ][plus, plugged in the drives, and tried to boot
some disks.  Nothing.  I vaguely recall having some kind of similiar
problem when my brother gave me his old ][, but didn't give it much of
a thought then.  And considering he had a lot of 16 sector disks, I
figured just insert and boot.

	The drives and disk controller are fine, they all worked on
a spare //e I have.  And the CPUs are fine as far as I know (at least
I was told "they work" before they were handed to me.)
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