14 Apr
2011
14 Apr
'11
2:53 p.m.
On Thu, 14 Apr 2011, Ray Arachelian wrote:
On 04/11/2011 06:00 PM, Steven Hirsch wrote:
Fortunately, it appears to be a bad connection. My best guess is that
MacWorks does not check data parity. LisaTest passes the drive now.
Waiting for some new media to try the LOS install again, but I'm confident
it will work this time around.
I know the drive is in good shape since I ran the Apple III based
diagnostics on it.
Steve
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I wish I could re-install... Per some of my other postings, neither
LisaTest nor Lisa Office install seem to think there's a workable
drive attached! The same drive(s) (I've tried three so far) pass
format and diagnostics on an Apple III. I've also been able to
successfully install MacWorksXL on all three using the same Lisa.
There must be something that Lisa OS / LisaTest does that is not
involved in MacWorks / MacOS use of the drive. Darned if I know what.
I'll keep looking for the obvious anyway (bad connections). Already
tried two or three different cables to connect the drive to the system.
Steve
Sorry to hear, sounds like the spared block table is full. :-( likely
the media is too damaged and LOS doesn't want to try. LOS does a
request for block # -1 (yes, negative 1) which the Profile responds to
with it's size, signature, and either a list of spared blocks or the
number of spared blocks (I forget which, maybe both.) If it's over some
threshhold, LOS will throw an error saying it can't install on this Profile.
If you want to have some 68000 assembly hacking fun, try to find the
check and disable it. But yeah, that drive is likely not in good shape.