Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!tektronix!reed!kamath From: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: HELP! can't write to floppy drives. Message-ID: <6906@reed.UUCP> Date: Thu, 20-Aug-87 12:23:30 EDT Article-I.D.: reed.6906 Posted: Thu Aug 20 12:23:30 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 22-Aug-87 14:43:53 EDT References: <1515@sputnik.COM> Reply-To: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath) Organization: Reed College, Portland OR Lines: 30 Keywords: Apple IIe, disk drives. In article <1515@sputnik.COM> mason@tc.fluke.COM (Nick Mason) writes: -> 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. -> -> Any Ideas??? -> Oooh, sounds to me like what happenned to me. Try getting a new ribbon cable. For some reason, it can send a false "write protected" status to DOS. It can be bad. You actually can write to the disk, but you have to tell DOS to ignore the write protected status. It's not a good thing to do. Try getting a new ribbon cable from your dealer or a mail order house, and if that doesn't work, well, shoot me! :-) Sean Kamath -- UUCP: {decvax allegra ucbcad ucbvax hplabs ihnp4}!tektronix!reed!kamath CSNET: reed!kamath@Tektronix.CSNET || BITNET: reed!kamath@Berkeley.BITNET ARPA: tektronix!reed!kamath@Berkeley reed!kamath@hplabs US Snail: 3934 SE Boise, Portland, OR 97202 (I hate 4 line .sigs!)