Apple IIe - trying to get drives to work

From: SUPRDAVE_at_aol.com <(SUPRDAVE_at_aol.com)>
Date: Mon Nov 17 22:35:55 2003

In a message dated 11/17/2003 10:46:03 PM Eastern Standard Time,
billdeg_at_degnanco.com writes:
In a nutshell, I turn on the Apple IIe and drive 1 spins and the drive
light comes on, but does not read any bootable disks. On the display the
screen reads: Apple ][

I have a number of boot disks so I don't think the disks are all bad. I
have checked the cables and the drive card. I have swapped out the drive
card with another that works. I have swapped cables and they seem OK.
Are you SURE you have bootable floppies? I've had disks get corrupted so they
don't boot anymore although the data is still good. Do you hear any disk
access noises at all?
I once had a controller card fail once with the symptoms you have. I tried
many boot floppies only to have them trashed by the faulty controller. Since I
had two disk drives, I kinda figured out the controller was bad. Thankfully,
JAMECO had them for $50 at the time.
Received on Mon Nov 17 2003 - 22:35:55 GMT