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Re: Question about disk drives for the EII

2008-06-26 by roisto

oh, those cables are nasty. maybe someone knows how to fix em?

-t

>
> hi kevin,
> 
> why don´t you build the macsetup yourself? :D it´s a major fun!! 
there
> ´s a lot of information available and old lowend macs are lying 
> almost every pawnshop. i just visited one and they told they had to 
> throw all the macs away because of low asking. what a waste..
> 
> -t
> 
> 
> --- In emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com, "Doug Berg" <caddyfam@> 
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com, "Kevin Kelley" <xirin6@> 
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >  It appears that my 5 1/4 drive died and the OS will not load 
off 
> > of 
> > > the hard drive. They both spin but nothing happens. Does anyone 
> > know of 
> > > a good replacement for the floppy? 
> > >  Also does anyone on this list sell a mac setup with SD and 
> cable? 
> > Just 
> > > a wild question. 
> > > 
> > > Kevin Kelley
> > >
> > 
> > Hi kevin:  I assume you have the EII+HD.  First what led you to 
> > believe the fdd died? Does the red LED blink or remain constant 
> when 
> > you power up?  If the HDD is running properly the OS should be 
> loaded 
> > on it and you should not need to boot from floppy. Most of the 
time 
> > the FDD failure is due to loose connection and dirty heads on the 
> > cluster.  If in fact there is a problem when you power up it very 
> > well could be the HDD (hdd light will flash intermittent 
pattern).  
> > Need to know more specifics on events at power-on... Doug
> >
>

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