Re: Disk ][ controller freezes system

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

RichC (rcrisafu@jetta.coordinate.com) wrote:
: I just got a Disk II contoller card.  Problem is that is hangs the
: system when I power-up.  Does anybody know which chip(s) are most
: likely defective?  Thanks.

This is probably a dumb question, but I should ask anyway...

Do you have a drive connected to the Drive 1 terminal?  If the Disk ][
controller is in the highest-numbered slot with a boot device (or is in
the startup slot on a IIgs) and the card does not have a working drive #1
connected, it will hang the system at the splash screen on boot, since
there is no boot-timeout on the controller.

It's just a thought...I've been working with Apple ]['s since about 1981
and in that time I have only seen one bad drive controller...and it simply
wouldn't boot...it didn't hang the machine.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
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