ADT Question, was: Disk ][ drives not working

[Alistair J Ross <mailat@alirossdotco.uk>]

Hi Everyone,

    Just wanted to let you all know that I managed to get a floppy drive
    working (one is shot), but goodness knows how I managed it, I managed to
    revive Drive 1, which seems to be in perfect working order now.

    I have had a number of problems recently (thats what makes it fun though,
    eh?):

    1)Can't get ADT to transfer disk images from the likes of Asimov FTP
    2)System seems to just die every now and again (suspect language card?)
    3)How do I work with .NIB images?
    
    With point 1, I have some downloaded .DSK images on my PC and I have ADT
    for the Apple running on the Apple as well as on the PC. I have the SSC
    card in slot 3, set to 9600 bps on modem mode. The transfer of any DSK
    image I try to send is fine up until I get the following error on the PC
    side:

    Track $02, sector $04: bad CRC

    which sounds like a dodgy image, but I've tried loads of different images
    and they all come out the same, any ideas on what could be wrong? - I've
    tried using both the DOS and the Unix version of ADT. I've also gone down
    to as low as 300bps.

    On point number two, sometimes, the machine just plain wont start (lines
    down the screen on boot, or it will just hang at some arbitary point).
    Usually rocking the language card on slot 0 helps bring it back to life.
    I've removed the card a number of times and tried to push the chips on the
    card firmly back into their places (but I haven't removed any). Do you
    think that the language card is causing these crashes, and if yes, do you
    think i should reseat the chips on it one by one? I have a chip remover
    tool (one of those cheap little tweezery things) but they still seem to do
    more damage to chips than good - this is why I'm rettiscent to do this.

    3) I saw that Kings Quest I, II and III are available for Apple II, which
    is great cause I loved all the early sierra AGI games. However, it's in
    .nib format. After reading the FAQs, it seems that this is just an exact
    bit for bit disk image - however, ADT says that this is not a 140K image
    and wont touch it (indeed, the image is 232960 bytes per disk image). How
    can I transfer these images to the Apple ][, and does anyone have any of
    the Space Quest (or any of the earlier Sierra games out there?).

Many, Many thanks as always,

Alistair Ross
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