Hi Blair, hi Andrea,
Blair - thank you very much for sending me the Piggyback Z8 with the
formatter ROM and the software for the Apple III! I played now all the
day around but without success...
My setup is an Apple III with profile interface card (in the right
slot seen from the front - this is slot 1, or not ?!?!)..I have one
working 5mb Apple III profile - the Apple III can access it ..I also
have one working 5mb Lisa profile and 2 "dead" 5mb profiles (from
Blair ;-) which I want to bring back to life. Thanks to Andrea we know
that also with working ST-412's we can bring back to life the old 5mb
profile with the ST-506 inside.. these would have been my plan...
Well, I first took my working Lisa profile to the low level format
process (inserted the Z8, booted the A3, closed the jumper and -
"formatting error, fail" ... I checked everything I could imagine..
well, the parallel cable is about 1,5m long but it works when I
connect the working A3 profile...
when the Z8 is installed, the disk does not do the testing with the
stepper.. if the original chip is inserted it does all the tests and
comes up after around 2 minutes..
.... at the moment it seems to me that the formatting software does
not interact with the profile card.. if I boot up with SOS 1.3 and
connect my A3 profile I have access to the profile without problems..
so the cable and the profile interface card should work...
Any ideas? it was really a hard piece of work to get all the
components.. I'd be really happy if somebody can help. I also can make
pictures of my setup...
the same error message comes when I disconnect the cable.. so somehow
the formatting software does not "feel" or see the disk.. it is always
the same error message.. no matter if I connect the cable, disconnect
it, change the z8 chip with the original chip.. it does not matter
I wanted to low level format my working profile .. so that I know the
disk is not the problem..
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