Re: Help with a IIe and Disk-2

[nancyc@pro-aplbytrs.pro-nsdapple.cts.com (Nancy Crawford)]

   delafo@oxy.edu (John de La Fontaine) asked:
 > Help! I am having an aggravating problem trying to use Disk #2
 > on a IIe (enhanced).
 >
 > Appleworks and Publish It encounter a read error when trying to
 > access Disk 2. I have ascertained that the disks involved are NOT
 > write- protected. Disk 1 will read these disks just fine. I put on
 > another disk drive to see if the drive was the problem and had the
 > same error. I installed another Interface card and still have the
 > same error. I even made another copy of Appleworks to make sure
 > that it wasn't corrupt. Until this error crept in, the machine
 > was functioning just fine with 2 drives -- drive 2 being for data.
 > Is there anything anyone can suggest? I'm baffled in trying
 > to find the cause of this error.
 
If a second interface card and a different drive 2 give the same error,
then I suggest the possibility that your drive 1 has developed a
difference in speed from those you are using for drive 2 which makes disks
written to from drive 1 unreadable from the drive(s) 2.
 

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