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- From: spw@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Steven P Wilkinson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: System 7.1 /Duo Problems?
- Date: 21 Dec 1992 11:59:34 +0800
- Organization: The University of Western Australia
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- David Lau (lau@aerospace.aero.org) wrote:
- : Hi Netters,
- : I would like to offer some of my experiences with my new Duo 230 and
- : System7.1
- : and then ask for any comments or suggestions.
- : Well I really love my new machine, but I have had more than a few problems
- : with it. At first I thought it was hardware related, but then after some
- : trial and error I discovered that it was software... in particular is was
- : system 7.1 and some system extensions/ utilities.
- : The problems cropped up when I was testing out some software that was
- : incompatible with system7. The system froze and I was forced to press the
- : hard shutdown key in the back. Unfortunately upon start-up the disk was
- : not recognized. In fact, booting off of the disktools floppy gave me the
- : dreaded message "This Disk is Damaged. Do you want to initialize?". Of
- : couse I said
- : no and desperately tried to ressurect my drive. The solution was using
- : MacTools 2.0. It gave me the message that the Volume information blocks
- : were corrupted.
- : Fortunately it was able to repair and I was on my merry way.
- : After some investigation I discovered that this happened all the time
- : upon hard shutdown. After further investigation I discovered that when I
- : installed a virgin system the hard disk survived hard shutdowns. I am
- : pretty sure that
- : the culprits are Extensions Manager and Before Dark. Both modify the
- : system
- : in some way. Currently I am running with a minimum of extensions being
- : very wary after my experiences.
- : My question to everyone is, has anyone else encountered this problem? Am
- : I
- : doing something wrong? Is there a solution? Thanks....
- :
- : David Lau
- : lau@aerospace.aero.org
-
-
- I have a similar problem occuring with my pb180. I've not pinned down
- the problems to hard shutdowns yet though.
-
- Steve
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