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

[schmidtd <schmidtd@my-deja.com>]

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?