Re: A Franklin and an Alltech Drive

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Bart writes ...

>>
A friend gave me a Franklin Ace 1200.  It is  in (I think) fair shape.  Seems
to have a blown "B" drive but "A" works,  it has a 80 col card, CP/M card,
combo printer serial card�..I know it boots into CP/M because I have some
CP/M floppies.  DOS 3.3. otoh I do not have.  I called Alltech and said "Does
your //c-e hard drive  work on a Franklin?"   They said "yes"   so I bought
one.  I put it in slot 7 and fired it  up. Doesn't come up.  Light on A comes
on steady.  Hit reset, LED on hard drive goes on and its sound changes,  and
I get a  ] prompt but no commands work (I get  ?SYNTAX ERROR on everything).
I looked all over the Apple2 sites, read FAQs��I am at a loss. What am I doin
wrong guys?
<<

     A few pure guesses ...

1. Alltech shipped you a blank hard drive-- i.e. it may be formatted but have
nothing on it.

2. The hard drive may have ProDOS installed; but, the ProDOS may not have the
mod to work with a Franklin.

3. The hard drive does not have time to spin up and is not ready when it's
checked. You could try doing a Control-Reset after you hit a snag on startup.
Then, wait about 10 seconds and try entering PR#7 to see if the hard disk is
ready to boot.

4. The CP/M card may be fouling things up. With power OFF, remove it and try
booting the hard disk.

5. If you have a bootable ProDOS diskette, try doing a Control-Reset after
you hit a snag on startup and, with the diskette in Drive 1, enter PR#6 to
boot ProDOS. Then, try to catalog the hard disk by entering ...

CAT,S7



Rubywand