Re: Apple IIe and Profile hard disk setup?

[cjyo@my-deja.com]

Well, good news and BAD news...

Thanks for the great suggestion that I try PR# + slot number.  PR#5
booted the CMS SD-20 drive.  It started with ProDOS 8 v 1.4, then went
into the CMS SCSI Utility.  I was also able to able to get into the
ProDOS basic system.

Unfortunately, I left the Apple IIe on (less than 2 hours) while I went
to check the Web for ProDOS commands and information about the CMS
drive and SCSI utilities.

When I went back to the Apple IIe, it was frozen in the SCSI Utility
screen.  No keys or combination of Ctrl-Apple-Reset keys had any
effect, so I turned it off and let it cool off.

Now, when I turn it on, I get thick vertical black and green lines (on
the black/green monitor), with a few random blocks.  No matter what
keys/reset I hit (or if I turn it off) nothing happens.  The same
vertical lines show up each time I turn it on.  The floppy drive does
not seek either.  It is totally locked up.

Any suggestions?  Have I burned out a card or the motherboard?  What
are common ways to try to recover the computer?

Keep in mind, I still don't have any system floppy disks (or any other
disks), except the hard disk.  (Disks are in the mail, but they may be
useless if I can't turn the machine on...)

In article <8k9uia$4ei$1@merope.saaf.se>,
  pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul Schlyter) wrote:
> In article <8k88k6$rl9$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,  <cjyo@my-deja.com> wrote:
>
> > I just picked up a complete Apple IIe system off the street and it
> > seems to be working fine, but I don't have any software or manuals
yet.
> > I have ordered some DOS system discs on ebay, so hopefully I can
try it
> > out next week.
> >
> > I plugged everything back together and I get a prompt on the screen.
> >
> > My question is regarding hard disks: this system seems to have 2
hard
> > disks (a Profile and a CMS), but I don't remember ever using an
Apple
> > II with a hard disk.
> >
> > Can anyone point me to more information on accessing and setting up
> > hard disks?  Can I boot from the hard disk?
>
> Did you try booting from the hard disk?  Type "PR#<n>" where <n> is
> the slot number of your hard disk controller (usually 5, 6 or 7).
>
> > Can I access the drives with DOS 3.3 or do I need ProDOS or a
special
> > program/driver to access the hard drives?  Can you tell me the basic
> > DOS command to access the drives?
>
> Depends on if you have DOS 3.3 software drivers installed for the
> harddisk.  If you do, a "CATALOG" follower by a slot and drive number
> should be enough to just check that it works.  Note that since DOS 3.3
> had a limited maximum size of disk volumes (400 K), hard drives were
> usually "partitioned" into multiple DOS "volumes", which were
> distinguished by the "volume" parameter of the DOS command line.
>
> (once I modified FID so that it also took the volume number as
> input, to enable it to move files back and forth from the Corvus
> Constellation hard drive, which contained multiple DOS volumes)
>
> > If the system runs, I am planning on using ADT and/or Oasis (or
another
> > emulator) to transfer files and disks back and forth between my PC
and
> > the Apple II.  Will I be able to access files on the Apple II hard
> > disks directly on my PC,
>
> No!  At least not through ADT
>
> > or do I need to transfer the hard disk files to an Apple II floppy
> > first (and vice versa)?
>
> Yes -- ADT is hardcoded for 140K 16-sector 35-track floppies and will
> be unable to handle any other disk geometries.
>
> --
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