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On Jul 23, 6:59 am, Krishna  Sadasivam <kms...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I put in an order for a MicroDrive from ReactiveMicro today. With
> Kansasfest this week, I'll probably receive the card late next week...
> then I'll be able to fire up the IIGS once more. Can't wait to boot it
> up, after all these years.
>
> Hoping to hear some exciting announcements from this year's
> Kansasfest!
>
> -Krishna
>
> On Jul 15, 5:07 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
>
> > Krishna Sadasivam wrote:
> > > Thanks for the welcomes, everyone!
>
> > > The hard drive spins up, but frustratingly enough - GS/OS boots midway
> > > before getting stuck during the thermometer process.
> > > When I first opened up the IIGS - there were loads of dust bunnies. I
> > > cleaned it out with a few quick blasts of compressed air. I also
> > > opened
> > > the external drive to make sure it was clean. So far so good.
>
> > > At this point, since I can't quite boot my hard drive, I've been
> > > eyeing a CF card based solution. Any recommendations on which one
> > > would
> > > serve me best? The price points are roughly equal, so I'm interested
> > > mostly in hearing about reliability and support.
>
> > I'm a satisfied CFFA customer--Rich has done a fantastic job of keeping
> > his early customers current, and has steadily improved the design.
>
> > > I'm hoping (and this is a big hope) that with the CF card, I can boot
> > > a clean version of GS/OS 6.0.1 and see the volumes that are on the
> > > 80MB
> > > HD I have. If I can copy that data over, then I'm okay.
>
> > That's exactly what you should hope for!  I'd give that HD a rest
> > until you're ready to block copy it to a CF card and attempt a full
> > recovery or just file retrieval.
>
> > Until then, I'd avoid anything that might write to it...
>
> > > My Second Sight board seems to work okay - but with an LCD (I'm using
> > > a Hanns-G 19" model) - I was seeing a lot of wavy lines when
> > > attempting to boot from  GS/OS on my hard drive. Weirdly enough, I
> > > didn't see this when accessing the built-in Control Panel or anything
> > > ProDOS based.
>
> > The dot clock on the IIgs is 16MHz in SHR modes (like the GSOS display),
> > but 14.3MHz in all the standard Apple II modes.  It sounds like your
> > monitor prefers the 14.3MHz modes.
>
> > > I'm incredibly rusty with the IIGS - I used to know it like the back
> > > of my hand, but I'm having to Google information to jog my memory
> > > back.
>
> > It's like riding a bicycle (for the mind ;-).
>
> > > I'll keep everyone posted on how things develop. Thanks in advance for
> > > those CF card recommendations!
>
> > Good luck!
>
> > > -Krishna
>
> > > On Jul 14, 4:03 pm, "Bill Garber" <willy4...@comcast.net> wrote:
> > >> "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote in messageEe2dnbDgRaewNubVnZ2dnUVZ_u-dnZ2d@comcast.com">news:Ee2dnbDgRaewNubVnZ2dnUVZ_u-dnZ2d@comcast.com...
>
> > >>> Jeff Blakeney wrote:
> > >>>>   To: Krishna  Sadasivam
> > >>>> On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:52:20 -0700, Krishna  Sadasivam wrote:
> > >>>>> I should also note that the RamFAST utility appears to lock up from
> > >>>>> time to time when I am in it. (I'm holding the 'zero' key to access
> > >>>>> the onboard RamFAST utilities. I will add that my hard drive now
> > >>>>> appears to boot into my System 6.0.1 partition (albeit very slow...) -
> > >>>>> (it may have taken some time for it to 'warm up', being dormant for
> > >>>>> the better part of a decade). It freezes after the thermometer.
> > >>>>> I need to check if the ZipGS card is functioning or if the machine is
> > >>>>> crawling at 1MHz...
> > >>>>> The adventure continues.
> > >>>> I'm in the process of setting up my IIgs again but mine has only been
> > >>>> down for a number of months, not years.  :-)
> > >>>> The last time I had my machine set up, I was trying to modify a flaky
> > >>>> ZipGS to a higher speed but never got it running reliably.  Last week,
> > >>>> when I put my regular ZipGS back in, it wouldn't start properly (similar
> > >>>> problems to what you experienced above) but by pulling the card from the
> > >>>> slot, disconnecting the ribbon cable from the card, removing the ribbon
> > >>>> cable from the processor socket, putting everything back together and
> > >>>> then flexing the card and/or ribbon cable a couple times (the ribbon
> > >>>> cable tends to bend the ZipGS card away from the power supply if the
> > >>>> card is in slot three) it has started working again.
> > >>> The processor socket-to-board connection seems to be a well known
> > >>> design weakness in all IIgs accelerators...
>
> > Actually, I meant the entire path from socket to accelerator board:
> > the processor socket, the plug, the cable, and the header plug...
>
> > >> Cable, too, especially if it's been folded(pinched) numerous times.
> > >> That breaks the conductor inside the insulation. I've run into that
> > >> quite a bit on many different interfaces.
>
> > >> Bill Garber from GS-Electronicshttp://www.garberstreet.com
>
> > -michael
>
> > AppleCrate: An Apple II "blade server"!
> > Home page:  http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/
>
> > "The wastebasket is our most important design
> > tool--and it's seriously underused."

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