Re: help diagnosing an Apple IIe, please.

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

On Feb 26, 10:19 am, "sfahey" <sfa...@a2central.com.remove-ch9-this>
wrote:
>   To: adric22
>   Re: Re: help diagnosing an Apple IIe, please.
>   By: adric22 to comp.sys.apple2 on Wed Feb 25 2009 06:47 pm
>
>  > HOWEVER, I seem to have a new problem.  The computer has a DISK ]
>  > [ card in slot 6 and a single "disk ][" drive attached to it via a
>  > ribbon cable.  However, the drive doesn't do anything when I turn the
>  > computer on. Normally, I believe these Apple II systems are supposed
>  > to bang the heads a bit or something.  But it never even lights up.
>  > Any thoughts there?
>
> I would double check to see if the cable is correctly installed on the Disk II
> controller. If it's not, you can zorch the controller, and even the drive.

And not just backwards-ness is bad: but off-by-one on the header will
also release the drive's magic smoke.