Re: Lisa Office install problem from Steven Hirsch on 2011-04-13 (lisalist1)

From: Steven Hirsch <snhirsch_at_email.domain.hidden>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:37:09 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, 13 Apr 2011, gilles wrote:

> do you have someting like a 800kb floppy or any other upgrade? > which are your roms versions?

This is an absolutely stock Lisa 2/5 with H/A8 roms. It turns out to be an apparent electrical connectivity issue. The unit had some serious corrosion from NiCad battery leakage. I thought I had cleaned it up sufficiently with PCB flux remover and contact deoxidizer, but after additionally soaking overnight in dilute vinegar, it sprung back to life.

Very odd that MacWorksXL had no issues with the drive. I'm going to guess that the line carrying the parallel bus parity bit was not making connection and that the MacWorks ProFile device driver never checks it.

Steve

> On 10 avr, 21:38, Steven Hirsch <snhir..._at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:

>> I have been restoring a Lisa 2/5 and have it to the point where it's
>> passing all diagnostics, both internal and LisaTest. It boots MacWorks XL
>> just fine and runs MacOS, applications, etc.
>>
>> However, no matter what I've tried I cannot get Lisa Office System to
>> initialize the hard disk. I have two known-good ProFiles that were
>> freshly low-level formatted and qualified on my Apple III. Both pass the
>> format and diagnostics. MacXL has no problem formatting and setting them
>> up.
>>
>> Why is Lisa Office giving me such a hard time?

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