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- From: tnakada@eis.calstate.edu (Tom Nakada)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: Q900 & 950 with 45MB cart.
- Message-ID: <C03MD4.7M2@eis.calstate.edu>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 00:51:04 GMT
- References: <C010v3.327@ulowell.ulowell.edu>
- Organization: Calif State Univ/Electronic Information Services
- Lines: 42
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- stewart.submil.ulowell.edu (Scott Stewart) writes:
- > We have a lab here with two Q900's and three Q950's each machine has a
- > microtech 45mb removable cart. drive attached. Every morning, after leaving
- > the machine running all night, there is a message on the screen "This disk is
- > unreadable" clicking on the "eject" key makes this message go away. If I
- > unhook one of the drives this message no longer appears.
- >
- > I have the most recent extension in the sys. folder and each one of these
- > drives was put on different machines IIci's IIcx's and the message never
- > appears. I talked to Microtech and they haven't heard of this happening.
- > It only happens on the Quadra and only if the extension is enabled.
- >
- > Has anyone else had similar problems or any suggestions?
- >
- > Thanks in advance!
- >
- > scott stewart
- > stewart@submil.ulowell.edu
-
- We have two different SyQuest based mechanisms hooked up to a Q900 and
- have never had the problem you describe.
-
- I know that I did have problems with a MicroNet SyQuest when it was hooked
- to a IIcx - but they disappeared when I used FWB HD Toolkit to reformat
- the disks and used HDT Extension (the system extention that will mount a
- SyQuest cart when inserted).
-
- I use the HDT Extension if I know I'm going to be using a lot of carts, so
- I won't have to bother with Command + spacebar to mount the disks with
- SCSI Probe.
-
- The above doesn't seem to help, but I'd say take out the MicroNet INIT and
- try using either SCSI Probe or the FKey - Mount 'Em and see if the problem
- persists. With SCSI Probe there is an option to flush the driver when a
- disk is ejected, so it's the better choice if you have carts formatted
- with either different versions of the same formatting software or carts
- formatted with different formatting software...
-
- Good Luck!
-
- Tom
- tnakada@eis.calstate.edu
-