Re: Disk ][ Drives not working

["Igor" <ikanja@despam....com>]

Alistair J Ross wrote:

> Hello again,
> 
>     Thank you to all of you lovely people who offered to send me a
> disk with     DOS 3.3 in my recent problem of chicken-and-egg:
> getting DOS to my Apple     ][ Europlus.
> 
>     Well. I have now recieved said copies of software (thank you very
> VERY     much), so I went about booting the disks (I have two copies
> of the DOS     master disk, just in case). Unfortunately, the ][ just
> sits there on     startup with APPLE ][ on screen. Drive 1 moves the
> head back to the rear of     the drive (if not already there) and it
> tries to move it's self back even     further (is this called
> calibrating?!) - in doing so, the drive gives out a     (what I would
> call) slightly irregular thud, thud, thud sound. About 10 or     so
> of these thuds and the drive head ceases to move against it's
> stopper.      The drive motor continues to run however, until I hit
> RESET.
> 

Hello Alistair, If you received the disks I've sent to you, I've tested
them before sending but they could have been damaged on the way.
As you probably know, those disks are double sided and each program on
each side can boot your II just fine. So if the dos master doesn't work
try with the other programs.
I suppose the second diskII controller you have is from the IIe (if I
recall fine the hardware you got) then I think the problem should not
be caused by an old rom on the controller.

Igor