Crippled Disk ][ Problem

[jolomo@netcom.com (Joe Morris)]

I recently aquired a Disk ][ drive and can't get it to work -- I know
nothing of its history.

The symptoms: when accessed the light does come on and the disk
spins. When I try to read a known good disk, I get "I/O ERROR". When
I try to format a disk it lights up, spins but doesn't make the "format"
sound (COPYA generates the "UNABLE TO WRITE" error, other formatters
quit with other errors).

Disks I tried to format on this drive formatted fine on my first drive.
Tried setting this up as Drive 1 the light came on, disk spun, but no
startup sound and no startup.

All the cabling looks Ok, and the drive looks to be in excellent shape.

Does anyone have a clue? Is there any other pertinent info I left out?

Thanks for any help or wild guesses,
--
        -joe        "Honey, they're in *everybody's* eggs" --firesigns