Re: Broken //c drive advice

[Roger Johnstone <rojaws@es.co.nz>]

Peter Ibbotson wrote:

> Ok, looks like I've managed to create a boot disk for my newly acquired //c,
> thanks to the FAQ and the newsgroup for pointing out that I'd misread it.
>
> Sadly the //c seems to have a duff built-in drive and the version of DOS in
> DOS33DMP seems to be esDosII which starts booting via a PR#7 but then starts
> trying to boot from the built-in drive. (Does "real" DOS 3.3 work via this
> route?)

I don't currently have a IIc with the original ROM, but from memory 
Apple DOS 3.3 did the same thing i.e. a PR#7 would start to boot from 
the external drive then switch to the internal drive. ProDOS disks 
booted fine though.

> Looks like I'll have to take the main system apart and examine the drive, it
> steps back to track 0 but then fails. Anyone got any clues (or better yet a
> website)? One idea I may try is to take apart both drives and swap the
> mechanisms but this feels a little extreme at the moment, I'd like to
> confirm the second drive works first.
>
> The //c first displays "Check Disk Drive" on powerup is this normal for a
> //c, or does it indicate some other problem?

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