Indus GT Weirdness

[toddtmw]

Hi.

 

I have an Indus GT I was thinking of putting the sram charger in and updating the firmware. before starting I hooked it up to check it out. I have the Databyte 11.5 volt power supply. It fits very loosely, but it does power up. I put in what I thought was a dos disk and it booted to a black screen. At that point, I realized it was paperclip and I was running in 800 mode, so I was like no problem.

 

Turned off the computer, put in a dos 2.5 disk and turned it back on. It spins up, makes about a half SIO chirp and then ... nothing. It starts to spin down and then tries again, but doesn't do anything.

 

Anyone got any ideas?

 

Thanks!

 

-Todd

[JR>]

does the paperclip disk still work?

[toddtmw]

it wasn't an original disk. I made it from NOS blanks and an .atr. Why do you ask?

 

I actually bought paperclip off eBay a while back, so I have the original somewhere.

[JR>]

Just trying to understand if the problem is with the DOS 2.5 disk, or if the drive "broke" after you successfully booted the paperclip disk.

[_The Doctor__]

I'd investigate the loose power jack and solder it nicely, then I'd check power and exercise the dip switches... after that it's down to selection/sio chip fun.... make sure it's on the sio all by itself, and if you have all that new fangled stuff, that your config doesn't confuse the indus or vice versa

[toddtmw]

1 hour ago, _The Doctor__ said:

I'd investigate the loose power jack and solder it nicely, then I'd check power and exercise the dip switches... after that it's down to selection/sio chip fun.... make sure it's on the sio all by itself, and if you have all that new fangled stuff, that your config doesn't confuse the indus or vice versa

You are the king of trouble-shooters. I removed the 850 interface and plugged directly to the 800 and it works fine.

 

Not sure why the 850 causes the issue, and not sure why it got half way through booting paperclip before it said, "Wait, I'm not supposed to work this way" and stopped. 

 

Thanks!