Re: GS + Apple 3.5 non-functional

[Lockar <lockar@nospam.com>]

   Donald,

      Are you sure that your 3 1/2 disks haven't gone bad.   You said
your 5 1/4 disk drives work.  Do you have Copy II Plus or some other
ProDOS utils on a 5 1/4 disk?  If so boot from them and try to format a
31/2 disk and put ProDOS and some other programs on it.  If it boots
then, I would say your 3 1/2 disks went bad on you.

    -Lockar


In article <1065268678.761416@nala.inherentsys.net>, Donald Bailey
<dbailey@inherentsys.ca> wrote:

> The 3.5"s are first, 5.25s second.  The drives have not be hotplugged.  If
> they were Disk ][s the first thing I'd look for is a 74LS161 with a hole in
> it (been there a few times with offset connectors 10-15 years ago) alas the
> GS doesn't have that problem.
> 
> The control panel was double checked before posting, that slot 5 is set to
> SmartPort, and it is also set to boot from slot 5 FIRST to make sure the GS
> was in fact going to attempt that.  No 5.25s are currently connected - just
> a single 3.5.  No luck booting.  When only a 5.25 is connected and the GS is
> set to boot from 6, the 5.25 boots the disk fine.  Again, I tested the cable
> from one of the 3.5" drives from the drive side of the cable through to the
> underside of the GS board and was fine.
> 
> It is entirely possible that both drives are dead. It's been my experience
> in the repair business that if there is something in common between two
> problems it's probably the common device that's the problem.