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Re: Apple IIc Plus 3.5" Drive Problem

On 9/17/2012 7:29 PM, Doug Anderson wrote:

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.
No, the behavior is the same on a IIc+. But the timing on the keypresses is a little finicky... you do need to sit on the Ctrl-OpenApple before and after you press Reset. If you release them too soon, you'll just get a reset - and a little disk twiddle. But if you are successful with the three-finger-salute, you'll get a real disk boot.