As my HD is non functional at present, I was wondering if anyone has
a bootable disk image that they could email me and I can continue
testing my lisa with?
Or even better does anyone know where I can download a bootable disk
image?
Cheers
Phil
On Oct 6, 2005, at 12:18 PM, Philip Lord wrote:
Thanks again for the insights.
I have done a little more testing:
- Error 57 with Parallel cable plugged in (rear port)
- Will not attempt to boot from floppy with parallel cable
unplugged (from rear), but no error 57. Waits on 'insert floppy'
prompt. Does not see floppy
- With all internal cables unplugged from HD, floppy will attempt
to boot. However it is ejected very quickly. I assume It can not
find the system on the disc (I can not confirm 100% if I actually
have a bootable floppy)
As Tom mentioned, I think these could all be symptoms of bad power,
bad drive or bad drive controller board.
And as jerry mentioned, this setup was working (as is) a few years
back, so It is very unlikely to be a ROM version problem, or
mismatched parts ...will investigate further.
Cheers
Phil
On Oct 5, 2005, at 5:07 PM, macmoni wrote:
Hi Philip,
short answers again :-)
...has what looks like a Sun Rem 20 meg HD installed internally
with a cable...
definiteley a later-on upgraded Lisa. Very likely not by Apple !
Can I boot from a floppy without a keyboard and mouse???
Yes, of course; no problem. But then you can't do some further
tests - without mouse or keyboard...
To shut down the Lisa again, you will have to push the start
button again and wait some seconds until you hear a "clack" and
the screen will get dark.
'If' the floppy works then I can assume the Sun Rem HD, or HD
controller card is bad. Would I be correct?
Yes, or this Sun Remarketing HD interferes with the Lite-Adapter
or the ROM on the IO Board, as I wrote in my last email yesterday.
Or the whole configuration consumes so much power, that your
(still built in) 1.2 A power supply isn't able to feed :-)
Or somebody interchanged the IO Board. You cannot run every type
of IO-Boards in a Lisa, when you want to use a HardDisk
(especially the early Boards).
...mouse is a M0100... the same as the Mac 128/512k's mouse.
However the connector on the back of the lisa does not look like
the connector on the original Macs...
There were three kinds of mice available:
The first ones for Lisa (and for Apple II with Mouse Card in the
expansion slot). Characteristic was the plastic connector which
could be described as an rectangle with round corners and the
upper side of the rectangle was additional 3mm spared out.
The second mouse (chronological) was the Mac 1984 mouse (later
renamed Mac 128k). The connector is much bigger, cause it now has
two screws with huge knobs. The Pins are the same, so it will fit
like the first mouse.
The third mouse has a much smaller connector again, but the two
scres remained, although they are not so big (smaller diameter)
All these three types of mice will fit in the connector-plug of a
Lisa.
I had a Prototype of a Lisa 1, which had a connector, which only
supports the mouse 1, cause there was this rectangle "nose" on top
of the connector of the motherboard.
On the occasions when the power supply works, the monitor will
occasionally shift of flicker very slightly, this movement seems
rhythmically timed
interesting !
I never saw this before. Chaotic, yes, but predictable, cause
rhytmically...
What time periods?
with a quiet hissing noise from the PSU. I'm waiting for a 1.8
amp PSU to arrive soon.
That's better, in deed !
Greetings TOM from bavaria, the center of europe, the country of
the alps, the marvellous castles of Koenig Ludwig and the original
Oktoberfest
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