Re: Mac Plus Questions

[Andy Larsen]

Is there an easy way to check the floppy controller? I've opened up the 
case (and the external floppy drive) and everything looks almost brand 
new. Very little dust. It would seem unlikely to me that BOTH the 
built-in and external drives are bad with as little use as this machine 
seems to have gotten. I've determined there's +-12V and +5V where there 
should be, so I believe the power supply is okay.

The other possibility is that the boot disks I've attempted to create 
(several) just aren't good. I have contacted a couple people to try to 
get a known good 800k boot disk that this machine will recognize, but 
have not heard back yet.

That seems to be the next logical step. I think the machine has had the 
ram upgraded, which will be nice if I can get it to boot! There are 4 
sticks that I can see through the lower steel frame, which looks to be 
the ram. Thanks again everyone for the help!

Andy

On Monday, May 26, 2003, at 09:33 PM, J.S. Garrison wrote:
On the rare instance that the floppy-controller on the motherboard is 
bad,
there are a few of us who'd be happy to get you another one.


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