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From: neil@dsl.cis.upenn.edu.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: INIT disk on apple ][+
Message-ID: <2361@super.upenn.edu>
Date: Wed, 28-Oct-87 09:54:15 EST
Article-I.D.: super.2361
Posted: Wed Oct 28 09:54:15 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 31-Oct-87 04:33:36 EST
References: <18249@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> <1130@puff.wisc.edu> <7565@reed.UUCP>
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Reply-To: neil@dsl.cis.upenn.edu.UUCP (Neil Radisch)
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
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Summary: another possibility

In article <7565@reed.UUCP> kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath) writes:
><Meet the DISK ][, the *original* headbanger!>
>
>In article <1130@puff.wisc.edu> schumann@puff.wisc.edu (Christopher Schumann) writes:
>>In article <18249@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>, (Steve Reiss) writes:
>>> I need some help.  I just got hold of an Apple ][+ and am having trouble
>>> doing a disk initialization.  I type INIT HELLO and i get the disk to start
>>> it's noises, only to get I/O ERROR printed on my display.  I can SAVE files
>>> to disks that have already been initialized, so my disk is able to correctly
>>> write files.  
>>> Steve Reiss

I've had this problem too and it turned out to be a corrupted init command.
I just booted up with a different system disk and had no trouble initing.


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