I blew up my IIgs!

From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre_at_stockholm.ptloma.edu>
Date: Tue May 8 18:15:42 2001

Yes, I really did. Are Apple IIgses that easy to kill? Normally I just keep
a single 5.25" drive attached to it, but I needed a 3.5" drive as well
today (I'll explain as part of a larger question). So I plugged the 3.5"
into the computer, the 5.25" into the 3.5", turned the machine on, it made
three loud pops and died. The power light does not come on now and there
is no activity from the disk drives.

I fortunately do have another IIgs in stock, and was able to swap power
supplies so that it boots again (this second is a defective unit I use for
spare items). I will say that I wish every power supply were as easy
to replace as the IIgses -- it literally just snaps in and out.

Now that I have shot an apparently unrepairable PS, or is it?, what did I
do wrong so I don't destroy more hardware in the future? Can you really
not mix drives? Remember, I'm a C64 freak and I have all kinds of disk
drives connected up to my Commodore farm. :-P

Now the larger question.

This IIgs netboots ProDOS 16 from an SE/30 over AppleTalk, which works
quite well. Soon I'll have the IIgs using the SE/30 as a gateway to the
apartment network (and shortly thereafter the C128 will join it).

I tried to netboot GS/OS on it -- I don't know what version (this is a
ROM 03 1MB IIgs). It gives me the nice "Welcome to the IIGS" screen,
an AppleShare CDEV? appears lower-left and then disappears, it chugs along
some more, and then drops out and puts me back at the AFP client. It
then refuses to boot GS/OS at all until I restart the machine.

Is this a symptom of something specific? If I just wanted to check if the
machine were capbale and properly configured for running GS/OS, how could
I do that? And where can I find GS/OS disk images? I looked in

ftp://ftp.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English-North_American/Apple_II/Apple_IIGS_System_6.0.1/

but there doesn't appear to be anything in there(?). Disk Copy-format would
be nice, something I can break apart on my Power Mac.

Thanks for any suggestions,
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