Re: AE PCT Hard Drive Corrupted

["Mark Cummings" <NOTfigjams@primus.com.au>]

"Charlie" <charlied@NOSPAMbboard.com> wrote in message
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> Well, lets see, scrink, scrink, scrink, bonk (sound of drive connector
being
> disconnected from PC Transporter and then GS booting).  Now, booting PC
> Transporter from hard drive image file on ProDOS partition.  OK,
confirmed, you
> can boot MS/DOS (version 5.0) from the hard drive image without any floppy
> drive connected to the PC Transporter.

excellent, it will be worth my while making the manual now and setting up
the drive.

> The PC Transporter does come with a PC program called "Transfer.exe" that
can
> be used to move files back and forth between ProDOS and the MS/DOS disk
image
> and as Peter says MUG will do the same from the Apple end.

good, a bit like Muffin and Niffum in the old DOS 3.2 DOS 3.3 days.

> Incidentally, I have never used a Transdrive with the PC Transporter.  I
just
> plug my Apple 3.5" 800K drive into the PC Transporter port (do not do this
with
> a 3.5" UniDisk) and use it for both ProDOS and MS/DOS.  Have you tried
that?

unfortunately, as I said the drive controller chip on the PCT is cooked as
far as I can establish by the unusual bump on it (that wasn't there when it
was working). and it's not your commonly available TTL or CMOS chip,
otherwise I would have fixed it by now. and micro-minature repair techniques
are no good either at this size. sigh :(

Mark