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Well, there are some very real scenarios where magic smoke can be released if you don't line pins up correctly. There's a good amount of current available at 12v on some of them thar pins. And we're strictly talking about 5-1/4" drives. 3-1/2" drives are another story altogether. Probably...

Yes, I was demonstrating the difference between the DB19 and the 20-pin headers on them. It's actually the same electronics on those cards... only the connectors (and number of connectors present) are different. I'm sure there are/were adapters that went both ways for various reasons. They're...

There is an adapter to go from the 20-pin header to DB19 out there like this: But half of the Disk II controllers had the DB19 connector on them; i.e. vs. Yes. For further reference, see this page: http://www.vintagemacworld.com/drives.html

It's a Disk II-compatible with a DB19 connector. What do you want to know? ;-)

Yes, you want to adjust the key repeat delay. Alas, that's because there isn't one; you can't adjust it. Some related references: http://support.apple.com/kb/TA29566?viewlocale=en_US http://www.1000bit.it/support/manuali/apple/technotes/aiie/tn.aiie.10.html

http://www.1000bit.it/support/manuali/manuali.asp <- select "Apple Computer Inc." http://www.1000bit.it/support/manuali/download.asp?id=534 http://www.1000bit.it/support/manuali/download.asp?id=533

What other variations have you tried? You definitely don't want a drive as SCSI ID 0; that's usually for the controller. Try 3, 4, 6 - anything but 0 or 7. Also: have you tried putting a terminator on the chain anyway?

Let me preface my response with this: they say that when your only tool is a hammer, every problem is a nail. The way I'd solve this is with ADTPro. A .hdv image is really just a straight ProDOS-order image (i.e. .po) and as such ADTPro would be able to send that and write it on top of your...

There's another thread started on this topic elsewhere. Anyway, looking at the connector, it's too wide for a 9-pin. It looks like a 15-pin joystick port for a PC.

This sounds familiar - have you posted this same question on another board, by chance? I'm not sure what you mean by "powers up." If you have two drives connected, and turn the Apple II on, the first drive will spin until/unless a bootable disk is inserted. The second drive won't do anything...

You need a new-style Disk II controller card with the 19-pin D-shell cable. The ones I have are labeled "Apple 5.25 Drive Controller 655-0101." See: http://www.vintagemacworld.com/drives.html

They come up on eBay pretty regularly - they are robust little creatures. CRT tubes tend to cost more to ship than their overall value, so that's probably a good gauge...

Very. Cool.

Really? You can't lay the 16-pin DIP plug sideways and (slowly) work it through one of the openings?

Tell them they're right. And to give you more gear that "won't work." No USB solution is in the offing. You need to look for a vintage Apple II drive. See this page for details on all the different models, and the ones that are compatible with your GS.

Yes. Second connector from the right.

The machine is happy and healthy, then. First beep = power on, ROM boot screen. Second beep = complaint that there's no disk to boot. Ctrl-Reset will then get you to an Applesoft command prompt. As Gorgonops points out, any video display device old enough to have (composite) video in will do...

Not all null modem cables are created equal. When it'll send but not communicate bi-directionally, suspect the cable. Also: make sure you change the speed settings on both ends to be 19200 baud once everything is up and running. See: http://adtpro.sourceforge.net/lc.html

When you are starting the bootstrapping process, you can't start by sending just ADT... you have to have a copy of DOS running underneath it first. If you want to run DOS and ADT, then: bootstrap DOS, then send the ADT client. If you want to run ProDOS and ADTPro, then: bootstrap ProDOS, then...

Once your hard drive is partitioned - a nice 32MB ProDOS partition should do you fine - ADTPro can format it. Then just copy the files as previously mentioned. DOS 3.3 can't do much with the drive, so just stick to ProDOS.