Re: Connect Apple 3.5 Drive with Apple //e

[casa@unm.edu (Jim Pittman)]

For what it's worth department... my Apple 3.5 disk controller card
has a big red LED on its top edge. It comes on for 1/3 second or so
when I turn on my ROM 01 IIgs computer. It does NOT come on when
reading from a disk in the attached Superdrive, when writing to the
disk, or when restarting the computer from the Finder.

No, I'm not going to insert it incorrectly just to see if the LED
will blink...   :-)

- Jim Pittman - AppleQuerque Computer Club - casa@unm.edu

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Subject: Re: Connect Apple 3.5 Drive with Apple //e
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 19:06:03 +1300
From: dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Organization: Empsoft

Edhel Iaur <drsmooth@relex.com> wrote:

> dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote:
> 
> >[Description of SuperDrive card.] There are also a couple of LEDs
> >at the top of the card.
> 
> What are these LEDs for? If you don't have an "In Use" light on your
> drive?

Sorry, just one LED, not two (I was confusing it with the ZIP).

In the manual, it is only mentioned in the troubshooting section. It
is supposed to go on briefly after the computer is turned on. If it is
blinking continuously or stays on, then the card isn't inserted
correctly or is faulty.

I'd have to run the computer with the lid off and watch what it does
during normal operation. This isn't very easy, because I don't have
any clear desk space to put the monitor nearby. I suspect it is
activated whenever the computer communicates with the processor on
the card, thus for all I/O transfers and most SmartPort calls.
-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz
Snail Mail: P.O. Box 27-103, Wellington, New Zealand