I've had 4-5 drives hung off the end of my gs's and a plethora of boards inside
as well and nary a problem. I'd think long and hard (and think about checking
the drive out electronically) before plugging that 3.5 inch drive in again.
and yes, I've mixed 5.25 and 3.5 inch drives. My cards, I should note, were
all of modern manufacture, so they may draw considerably less than what you've
got in your GS.
>
> 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,
> --
> ----------------------------- personal page: http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ --
> Cameron Kaiser, Point Loma Nazarene University * ckaiser_at_stockholm.ptloma.edu
> -- Proponents of other opinions will be merrily beaten to a bloody pulp. ------
>
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Jim Strickland
jim_at_DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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