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From: mason@tc.fluke.COM (Nick Mason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: HELP! can't write to floppy drives.
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Date: Wed, 19-Aug-87 10:41:14 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 19 10:41:14 1987
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Keywords: Apple IIe, disk drives.




 Hi!  I am having a weird problem with my Apple IIe and am hoping 
 someone can help me.

 I have an apple IIe with 2 floppy disks and the disk controller,
 (in slot 6), an 80 col card in slot 0, and a printer card in 
 slot 1.  What has happened is I can boot and read from the disks,
 but I cannot WRITE to the disks.  

 I have tried disconnecting everything but one disk drive, switching
 both drives, pushing on all of the IC's on the controller card,etc.
 I even replaced most of the chips on the card.

 I even got a new disk controller card, but the problem came back
 after 2 days.

 My current wild guess is that when the printer was powering up
 and the machine was trying to boot from the disk that something
 happened to the disk controller.


 Any Ideas???



Nick Mason/ms272G/John Fluke Mfg Co/Box C9090/Everett WA 98206 USA
   mason@tc.fluke.COM
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