Re: Apple IIc Plus 3.5" Drive Problem

[Doug Anderson]

On 2012-09-17 23:19:01 +0000, Doug Anderson said:

> I have a IIc Plus that starts just fine and displays output to the 
> monitor.  However, if I insert any 800K ProDOS floppy disk the drive 
> read light lights up for one second then goes out and I get the ] 
> prompt on screen.  The drive doesn't even act like its attempting to 
> read the disk.
>
> Any ideas on what may be causing this?  Seems like if the drive was bad 
> it would still at least grind away on the disk trying to read it.


Argh, solved the problem. Apparently a disk has to be in the drive 
before you power on. I'm used to my //e where I just insert a disk and 
hit ctrl+apple+reset and it will always attempt to boot from the drive.