Re: 3.5 inch disk drive for IIgs (apple brand) - Not workingproperly! Help!

[powergs@macgui.com (Sam Latella)]

I tested 3 othe drives with the IIgs.  I still think its not the controller
or the drive itself.

Everything worked well before.  The other item which could be suspect is I
have a Ramfast revD v3.01f working properly with a scsi drive, and I hooked
up a Zip drive recently to the Ramfast as well... Both items work fine, but
doing some research I found that the Zip Drive could conflict the the Apple
3.5 drive.... Anyone else have these results?  If so, what would be the fix
besides taking the Zip Drive off the Ramfast?

Thanks,
Sam



schmidtd wrote:
> On Oct 8, 7:59�am, powe...@macgui.com (Sam Latella) wrote:
>> The only suspect I have on the drive itself is it looks the the IIgs
>> battery
>> is dead. �Which results in the IIgs control panel (open-apple-esc) not
>> saving properly and being reset manually everytime I boot up. �Could a
>> dead
>> battery be the culprit in making the 3.5 drive act funny?
> 
> No, that's not going to affect the drive behavior or performance.  All
> defaults will still work fine with the drive.
> 
>> Sam Latella wrote:
>> > I just noticed that the 3.5 inch disk drive on IIgs only works when the
>> > disk
>> > is write protected while inserted into the drive.
>>
>> > The drive itself will not recognize the disk if it is ---not--- write
>> > protected, and the drive doesn't initialize blank disks at all.
>>
>> > Is the drive on its last legs?...or should I be looking for a simple
>> > fix?
> 
> There's something wrong with the drive (most likely), or the drive
> controller (less likely), is my guess.  What model number is the
> drive?  I assume it used to work correctly with the GS?  Do you have
> any other drives to test and compare with?
>