Re: Strange drive (?) problems

[brobstona@wartburg.edu]

In article <1996Dec21.215535.2281@slim.wartburg.edu>,
  brobstona@wartburg.edu wrote:
> 
> I'm having lots of strange problems with my Apple IIGS.
> 
> I am using a CPU that I bought quite some time ago because I needed
> a new monitor and it was the cheapest way to go to get one. (The old
> one still works; it just has a poor display.) Since I'm home over
> Christmas break and don't have "my" IIGS, I'm trying it out.
> 
> I brought home a 3.5" (Apple) drive to use with it. However, the
> drive won't write to or format a disk. I've never had any problems
> with it on my other CPU.
> 
> The battery in this particular ROM 01 GS needs to be replaced; I will
> be calling Night Owl on Monday. I remember reading something once about
> a bad battery affecting the disk drives, but I don't really see why
> those two things would really be connected.
> 
> All I wanted to do was run ProTERM! I got it to run by replacing the
> memory card (it previously had an Apple board that wasn't fully populated;
> I replaced it with a spare one with a full meg of memory), setting up a
> RAM disk, and copying ProTERM to the RAM disk. But, I couldn't copy it
> to a regular disk due to the above problems.
> 
> Any ideas?
Sorry to repost this, but if anyone can respond, please do so. :)
Andy Brobston

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