Ozfer
Experienced Member
Okay so a few weeks back I picked up a apple IIe for the first time. I have the original monitor, a diskduo, 1 super serial card, 1 serial card, the 80 col 64k ram expander, mouse card, and floppy disk card along with prodos and appledos and some blank disks.
I have been trying to get some games and software over to it from my computer, currently I am trying to get ADT pro to work or the apple game server. The problem is my apple II can read all the floppies that came with it no problem (not sure if they were made with the disk drive that came with it) but it cannot seem to be able to format or write a floppy.
Every time I use the apple game server the disk formater starts up and it says ERROR along with the drive making a somewhat grinding type of a noise. Every time I load ADT pro via audio cables and try to format a disk it also gets disk drive errors sometimes it says the disks are write protected even though the hole in the disk is not covered.
I took the diskduo apart the other day and gave the heads a good cleaning. I am not sure what exactly to look for to see if something broke, but everything seemed ok in general and the heads were not too dirty. This had no effect on being able to read or write disks.
I know the cable that goes from the diskDuo to the apple II is kinda falling apart from age at one end, I don't think it could be causing this as both drives are detected by the system and data can be read from both but maybe. Also it fails to write on either disk drive, the right side drive seems to make much more noise in ADTpro when trying to read and write.
Is there any service techniques I should try or anyone have any ideas? Maybe just get a new disk drive lol... I am pretty new to these appledos commands so I am still learning how to get around on the system.
I have been trying to get some games and software over to it from my computer, currently I am trying to get ADT pro to work or the apple game server. The problem is my apple II can read all the floppies that came with it no problem (not sure if they were made with the disk drive that came with it) but it cannot seem to be able to format or write a floppy.
Every time I use the apple game server the disk formater starts up and it says ERROR along with the drive making a somewhat grinding type of a noise. Every time I load ADT pro via audio cables and try to format a disk it also gets disk drive errors sometimes it says the disks are write protected even though the hole in the disk is not covered.
I took the diskduo apart the other day and gave the heads a good cleaning. I am not sure what exactly to look for to see if something broke, but everything seemed ok in general and the heads were not too dirty. This had no effect on being able to read or write disks.
I know the cable that goes from the diskDuo to the apple II is kinda falling apart from age at one end, I don't think it could be causing this as both drives are detected by the system and data can be read from both but maybe. Also it fails to write on either disk drive, the right side drive seems to make much more noise in ADTpro when trying to read and write.
Is there any service techniques I should try or anyone have any ideas? Maybe just get a new disk drive lol... I am pretty new to these appledos commands so I am still learning how to get around on the system.
