Re: IIe not recognizing Unidisk drive

[Kyle Boyd <kylekboyd@gmail.com>]

On Aug 19, 3:26 pm, Alex Freed <alex_n...@alexfreed.com> wrote:
> On 8/19/2011 12:14 PM, Kyle Boyd wrote:
>
> > On Aug 19, 12:56 pm, Eric Rucker<bhtoo...@gmail.com>  wrote:
> >> Make sure the card is seated properly, and the drive is plugged in tightly.
>
> >> It sounds like it's not seeing the card or any drives on it at all, because it's dropping straight into BASIC - what a //e does when there's no disk devices.
>
> > Thanks for the reply.  Unfortunately, I've already triple-checked that
> > the card is seated firmly and the drive is plugged into the port
> > firmly.
>
> There are 2 main possibilities:
> 1. The "inspection" broke the interface card. Not very likely as TTL
> chips are robust.
>
> 2. The card doesn't make proper contact with the slot.
>
> The things to try:
> 1. remove and insert the card a few times. Contacts may oxidize in 20 years.
>
> 2. Assuming the card is in slot 6, type
> call -151
> c600l
>
> if this lists reasonable assembly, the card is it least visible to the
> CPU. If you get a lot of "???", it is not.

The card is in slot 6 and when I tried the command I did get back what
looks like assembly (first line is: C600- A2 20   LDX   #$20).
I'll try another slot and also cleaning the contacts although they are
spotless already (this machine is in absolutely astonishingly
immaculate condition).