The Hobo Camp Fire Is going well #VI.. Stop In!!!

[Running Bear]

My friend showed up today with his Apple IIc+ and beta tested part two of Native Fury. He found plenty on the copy disk to keep me busy for a bit. He'd come across a syntax error which was usually the lack of an '=' in an 'if-then' statement (IF A$ = "N" THEN GOTO 200) or a forgotten 'PRINT' statement in a line that was supposed to be printed on the screen. He'd tell me what it was and where and I'd correct it in the master file. He also brought with him a diagnostic program disk. We went through and tested each of the drives to see if the speed needed to be adjusted. The speed has to be between 198.0 and 202.0 MS to be in the correct range. Faster or slower speeds means the drive won't write the tracks correctly. Too slow and the tracks will be too short, too fast and they'll be too long and overlap. We found that the black drive I was working on yesterday has a bad board. It looks to be working OK but it's only going through the motions. Send it a command to save a file and the drive would run, you could hear the head moving but nothing was being written. SO I'll be looking for a donor drive to cannibalize. I should be able to find one on Ebay easily enough. Problem with that model drive is it's so heavy it costs a bit to ship.

I put a new CMOS battery in this computer today, reset the CMOS and entered all the setup info and it fired right up. The hardest thing was having it ID the hard drive. It checked all the Sata ports and came up empty. I had to redirect it to search the RAID Ide port. I'm using an Ide drive and that's the only place I can connect it.