Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ncis.tis.llnl.gov!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!UNCAMULT.BITNET!CYLau From: CYLau@UNCAMULT.BITNET (The Ultron) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Disk ][, Apple //c, HELP!! Message-ID: <890502145632.140839@UNCAMULT.BITNET> Date: 2 May 89 14:56:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 53 *Date: Monday, 1 May 1989 09:38 mdt *From: Sun NCAA *Subject: Re: Disk ][, Apple //c, HELP!! *In article <890430153927.040595@UNCAMULT>, CYLau@UNCAMULT.BITNET writes: *> *> Also, is it possible, if the problem is the IWM, to get one ANYWHERE?? *IWM are available from a few sources selling Apple original parts. I believe *the selling price of a IWM is $29. Computer Shopper is your needed source of *info Yes, thank you for the info, the Apple "rip-off artists" (read Authorized Dealers :-) ) up here wanted to replace the whole motherboard for around $300 which is around $300 too much, considering that for $400-500 I can get another //c (used of course) with a monitor, software etc.. And since my warranty has long since expired, I have no problems about going in and fixing it myself.. *> I tested it (before I blew the IWM) and it kept running until I put a disk *> in the drive, then it said "Check Disk"... I wasn't aware that an ext. *> drive was supposed to do that.. my internal doesn't do that... *I've never heard of an external drive doing that either, but your internal *drive is supposed to do that after a number of retries at reading track 0, *sector 0. Turn on your //c without any disks in any drive. You'll see *what I mean. I know that my internal drive causes the system to display the "Check disk" message when there is a blank or no disk in the drive... what happens is that an old Apple disk ][, connected as the //c's external drive, when PR#7 is used to boot (I've got the old ROMS) with no disk in the drive, will keep running indefinitely (no message), until you put a disk in the drive, then it will boot, if possible, else display the "Check disk" message... strange.. is there something different about the //c drives and the Disk ]['s besides being smaller?? *-- *Matthew Lee Stier *Sun Microsystems --- RTP, NC 27709-3447 "Wisconsin Escapee" *uucp: { sun, mcnc!rti }!sunpix!matthew *phone: (919) 469-8300 fax: (919) 460-8355 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The opinions expressed herein are ! Replies to: entirely my own, but they can be ! CYLau@UNCAMULT.BITNET yours for only $29.95 plus tax.* ! CYLau%UNCAMULT@MITVMA.MIT.EDU (* where applicable.) ! xenlink!chris -------------------------------------------------------------------------