10 Aug
1998
10 Aug
'98
3:25 a.m.
Hmm, well I don't know about Prodos or the
'catalyst' proggy that people are
mentioning, I know I managed to get directory listings from my drives without
either, although it *may* have been using a diagnostics disk that came with
the drive.
12 Aug
12 Aug
2:46 a.m.
On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, Julian Richardson wrote:
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.
As is the drive, perhaps. I attempted to format the drive tonight, and I
got the error "Format error #21. Internal program error.". I'm hoping
it's a software error, but if it's hardware there's likely little I can do
about it.
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?
The reason I say that the drive may not be replacable is that although
it's an ST-506, the board on the bottom is (c)1981 Apple Computer Inc. So
Apple has gone and customized it somehow. :/
Hmm, well I don't know about Prodos or the
'catalyst' proggy that people are
mentioning, I know I managed to get directory listings from my drives without
either, although it *may* have been using a diagnostics disk that came with
the drive.
That's what I thought. I don't have Prodos or catalyst, but the SOS
utilities disk with the drivers and setup programs seems to indicate that
I should be able to access the drive without anything fancy.
From what I remember you're correct in waiting for
the ready light to go
out - the Profile does a block-by-block check of the drive each time you
switch it on, so the fact that the ready light's blinking and then
stopping is a good sign.
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.
Also, I've
got two Profile controllers, one in slot 3 and one in slot 4.
I coulfn't get it to work at all from the one in slot 3, simply because it
seems to have been preconfigured to look at slot 4.
aha, has anyone ever tried this? I've got two profile drives but have
never managed to get both to work at once, only one's ever recognised.
Will the system support two drives at once (I can't remember if my
problem was being unable to get anything working in a slot different
from 4, or whether it was just that two controller cards didn't want to
work in the same machine) cheers
Jules.
Thanks Jules, you're the only one not to try to involve Prodos so far. ;)
Doug Spence
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http://alcor.concordia.ca/~ds_spenc/
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