Re: Apple ][ plus 13 sector! Problems...

["Bryan Parkoff" <bryanparkoff@nospam.com>]

Richard Kilppatrick,

    Please sell 13 sector controller card to me.  I will be more than happy
to send you 16 sector controller card at no charge of shipping handling
cost.

Bill Gerber,

    If you have spare parts like 13 sector prom and older sequencer logic
PROM, please spare.

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Bryan Parkoff

"Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast DOT net> wrote in message
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> "Zorin the Lynx" <yakko@zorin.org> wrote in message
> news:cdbm1c$24r$1@ottoman.cs.fiu.edu...
> : You actually have a rarity; not many 13 sector systems are out
> there,
> : since the upgrade to 16 sectors came out so quickly and most
> people
> : upgraded.
>
> I believe I may have a couple 13 sector controllers.
> I thought they were just broken, but if I look at the
> rom, I'll bet that's why.  :o)
>
> : You need to find the ROMs to upgrade your controller to 16
> sectors.
> : Frankly, it'll be about 300 times easier to just find a 16
> sector disk
> : ][ controller, as there are millions of them out there.
>
> I have several, hell, many, Disk II controllers, and
> even more of the Apple 5.25" controllers. I'll give him
> one, or 2.  :o)
>
> : Of course, the drive may also be bad. If when powered on, it
> goes...
> :
> : <beep> clack-clack-clack-clack-clack-clack...
> whirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....
> :
> : that is a normal sound.. the clack-clack is the head moving to
> track
> : zero (there is no track zero sensor, so the card steps the head
> in the
> : track 0 direction around 40 times, and that's the clacking
> sound you
> : hear). After that, the whirring is simply the disk spinning; at
> this
> : point the drive is trying to read track zero. If it fails,
> it'll
> : continue to try to read it forever until you hit reset or shut
> down the
> : machine.
> :
> : If this is the sound you hear, and the system doesn't boot,
> either the
> : disk itself is bad, or the drive or controller is bad.
>
> I don't think it's the drive, but if the disk is
> an original, that might be. I had one that read
> one time and then failed. Good thing the image
> was available for download.
>
> : You're best off getting a 16 sector capable controller, as
> 99.99999995%
> : of the disks out there are 16 sector. Keep the 13 sector
> controller
> : around, though, as those were rare and the fact that you have
> one is
> : pretty spiffy.
>
> As I said, I can give him a proper 16 sector controller.
>
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