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PCPI Applicard boot behavior - maybe bad card?
- Subject: PCPI Applicard boot behavior - maybe bad card?
- From: David Schmidt <schmidtd@my-deja.com>
- Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:26:58 -0400
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I have a PCPI Applicard in the form of a Franklin Ace 80. I found boot
disk images here: http://www.mylinuxisp.com/~jdbaker/oldsite/binaries/
and reconstituted pcpiboot.sdk and pcpiutil.sdk. Both disks look normal
in CiderPress, and transfer without error to real disks.
With the Ace 80 in slot 4 in my platinum IIe, booting pcpiboot.sdk
clears the screen, I get a couple of odd half-track sounding kinds of
disk head movements, and then everything locks up with a blank screen.
If I remove the Ace 80, I get those same half-track chunk sounds - but
the machine then reboots and repeats the process forever.
It seems like something's wrong with my card. Is that a reasonable
place to start? Is there a different boot disk out there I should be
trying? Any hints as to typically failing components?