Re: Focus hard drive question

[glue@apple2.com (Glue Sniffin' Ed)]

On Wed, 30 Jun 1999 14:34:16 GMT, mark.REMOVE.percival@videotron.ca
(Mark Percival) wrote:


>I have a Focus drive in my GS (ROM 01) and it works perfectly.  My
>guess would have been to check if you are booting from the right slot
>but you seem to have that covered.
>
>1) Try putting the Focus card in another slot and see if it will boot
>from there.  This may tell you if you have a problem with you slot 7.

Still same problem :-(

>2) Try running the Focus card diagnostics and see if that comes out
>clean.  This is on the diskette that came with your Focus card.

Focus diagnostics all check out clean.  Everything is "working
perfectly"

>3) If you have another machine (say a IIe), try booting the card in
>that machine.  GSOS won't run but you should get an error if it is
>able to boot from the drive.

Tried it in my ROM 01 GS....same thing....also....no go in my Apple
//e

>One of these steps should help you narrow down where your problem is.
>
>Mark R. Percival
>Montreal, Quebec
>
>An Apple II fanatic since 1979.

Seems like the focus card or drive isn't "ready" when the system is
first started or you do a hard reset  as...everything works fine after
that.  

Thanks for the reply, hopefully I can figure this out, or maybe I just
need to RMA the drive.