14 Aug
1998
14 Aug
'98
9:22 p.m.
On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Julian Richardson wrote:
IIRC, it was more like 140 seconds. :/ That's for cold start, when it
goes into blinking mode after a command is issued to it, I think the
blinking time is shorter.
Nor can I. My machine came with the two Profile controllers installed.
I actually DO have a two-foot ribbon cable with the appropriate
connectors, surprisingly enough. Looks like time to experiment with that
one. :) Can't do it now, though, as it's set up in the hallway in front
of my parents' bedroom, and it's rather loud. (It's 5:22am in this time
zone as I type this.)
Doug Spence
ds_spenc(a)alcor.concordia.ca
http://alcor.concordia.ca/~ds_spenc/
> The READY
light doesn't go out, it just stops blinking. It stays *on*. I
> hope I didn't imply otherwise in my original post, else that could be a
> source for confusion.
> It makes sense to me that the READY light would stay on when the drive is
> ready.
that sounds right to me, too :) But at least it's changing state - I
guess I'd expect it to carry on blinking if there was a fault. (Out of
interest, how long was it blinking for? Seem to remember it used to be
somewhere around 30-40 seconds on my drives) > I played
with it again, and I CAN get it to run from slot 3. But I have
> to use the Profile controller board that was originally in slot 4, into
> slot 3. Only one of the controller cards gets a response from the drive,
> so I guess one is dead.
Interesting. My problem was probably that more than one card couldn't be
configured at once then (maybe I should get hold of a copy of prodos
from somewhere and that'll sort things out? I can't imagine the firm
that originally used this machine swapping drives around all the time!) > Unless the
cabling is wrong. :) I'm using a straight-through 25-pin
> cable, and it's 6 feet long. Maybe the Profile doesn't like cables longer
> than a foot in length or something? Or maybe it's supposed to have
> different wiring?
well, I remember the cable didn't have any twists in it - ie. it was
either a full crossover or straight-through. One of my cables is
original, and it's no more than a foot long. Chances are these things
would suffer from interference - try a shorter cable and see if it
helps.