SomeGuy
Veteran Member
Crap... was messing with the Laser 128 I was going to take to VCFSE tomorrow and it looks like it up and died.
Symptoms:
When powered on the drive spins but does not do the usual seek, and will not boot.
It will not boot from an external 3.5" drive.
When I load up prodos via ATDPRO and tell it to scan the drives, the internal and any external 3.5" or 5.25" drive spins for a moment but it does not list the drives at all so it won't format read or write.
Checked voltages on the external drive port and I think they look good.
I haven't tried plugging in a disk II controller in to the expansion slot, but I suspect that might function, but is not too useful.
No idea what happened, it had been working fine for about a month. It would be just my luck that the unobtanium disk controller chip is dead. I do have a spare 128 I'll use instead, but that really sucks.
Anyone encounter this specific problem before?
Symptoms:
When powered on the drive spins but does not do the usual seek, and will not boot.
It will not boot from an external 3.5" drive.
When I load up prodos via ATDPRO and tell it to scan the drives, the internal and any external 3.5" or 5.25" drive spins for a moment but it does not list the drives at all so it won't format read or write.
Checked voltages on the external drive port and I think they look good.
I haven't tried plugging in a disk II controller in to the expansion slot, but I suspect that might function, but is not too useful.
No idea what happened, it had been working fine for about a month. It would be just my luck that the unobtanium disk controller chip is dead. I do have a spare 128 I'll use instead, but that really sucks.
Anyone encounter this specific problem before?