Re: Lisa Test Program

• On Thu, 3/24/11, tezza <terry_at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:

> I found some other ZIPPED versions of LisaTest disk images
> which I can
> get to the Mac no problem but Disk Copy doesn't recognise
> these as
> valid images. I'm assuming the fork has been lost
> somewhere.

If you have a disk image where the resource fork has been whacked, you can use ResEdit to fix it. Simply use ResEdit, and open a good DiskCopy image, then view the file type information (from one of the dropdown menus in ResEdit). Write down the creator type and file type codes (from memory, dCpy and something else). Close that file and open your forkless file. ResEdit will prompt you, saying it's creating a resource fork for this file. Say OK. Then, view the file type info, and type the creator type codes into the box. Save the file, and then DiskCopy will see it.

On the subject of LisaTest, I haven't fully figured everything about it out. For example, I have no idea what the purpose of Disk 2 is. Disk 1 boots, but disk 2 does not, and it won't mount under the office system. I've never had the test program ask for disk 2. Perhaps because I've never had it test a profile?

I don't know how to get it to help you identify failed RAM chips, as the Lisa won't boot if you have a bad memory board - or rather, I've never tried. I have two memory boards that are so clobbered that even if you put it in slot 2, they cause the two-beep error and a scrambled screen. I have one that just fails the memory test, but I don't think I've tried to get the machine to boot past that point.

-Ian

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