Re: Conflicts with floppy? Where do I start?

[savant42 <jbrashars@gmail.com>]

Well, per David's advice, I booted into straight DOS, tried to INIT
HELLO a couple of disks, no such luck. Still getting I/O errors. Might
be time for floppy drive #3.

Is there a way to bootstrap misc. disk images? Playing some oregon
trail in the mean time would make me feel at list a little better.

savant

On May 17, 7:05 pm, savant42 <jbrash...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok, so I've removed all cards except the disk ][ IO Card and the AE 80
> column ram card in the aux slot. I've verified that the disk ][ ribbon
> is not offset, and has the red stripe toward pin 1 (and away from pin
> 19). I've tried slots 4, 5, 6, and 7. I've used a handful of disks
> that came with the A2 when I bought it, and each said Startup (some
> for Appleworks, some from ProDos). Same result: Turn power on, card
> chunks, then whirs, but screen never progresses past "Apple //e". I
> can hit ctrl+reset and get into apple rom and even bootstrap ADTPro,
> but that's as far as she gets. I've grounded myself out and tried
> gently pressing on all of the chips to ensure they're seated properly.
> I've done most things, shy of actually removing each chip from the
> socket and re-seating them.
>
> Any other ideas?
>
> - sav
>
> On May 17, 10:39 am, "sfahey" <sfa...@a2central.com.remove-9hd-this>
> wrote:
>
> >   To: savant42
> >   Re: Re: Conflicts with floppy? Where do I start?
> >   By: savant42 to comp.sys.apple2 on Mon May 17 2010 09:38 am
>
> >  > that having a card in the AUX slot will disable slot 3.
>
> > No, it's not disabled -- the Aux slot shares some of the same address lines
> > with slot 3, so there is a potential for cards to conflict.
>
> > You can put a serial card, Uthernet, Transwarp... several cards in slot 3 with
> > no worries.
>
> > Slots are all purpose, but some standards have been established:
>
> > Slot 1: serial printer interface, parallel printer interface
> > slot 2: serial modem interface, slinky RAM
> > slot 3: Uthernet, accelerators
> > slot 4: Z80 cards, co-processors, mice, sound cards, slinky RAM
> > slot 5: 3.5 controllers, secondary 5.25 controllers, etc.
> > slot 6: primary 5.25 controller, etc.
> > slot 7: IDE, SCSI, SASI controllers or anything else
>
> > By no means exhaustive list, but slot 4 is probably the most contested slot for
> > various products.
>
> > Sean Faheywww.a2central.com
> > bbs.a2central.com