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- From: David_Goldsmith@taligent.com (David Goldsmith)
- Subject: Re: spurious 'This is not a Macintosh disk'
- Message-ID: <David_Goldsmith-060193144300@david-goldsmith.taligent.com>
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- Sender: usenet@taligent.com (More Bytes Than You Can Read)
- Organization: Taligent, Inc.
- References: <C0G0rM.B7M@ipsa.reuter.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 22:44:48 GMT
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- In article <C0G0rM.B7M@ipsa.reuter.com>, jhs@ipsa.reuter.com (Henri
- Schueler) wrote:
- >
- > I have been getting spurious alerts. The alert is the one you get when
- > you insert an unformatted disk, or a non-MAC disk into the machine. i.e.
- > This is not a Macintosh disk:
- > Do you want to initialize it?
- >
- > It doesn't happen very often (a couple of times a week); sometimes I am
- > using the machine, sometimes it is just idling with a screensaver. There is
- > no disk in the machine, and I am not using any extension that supports
- > non-Mac diskettes (though I have use Dyna Dos Mounter on this machine at
- > other times).
- >
- > The machine is a Quadra700 with 7.0.1+tuner.
-
- This is a bug in the SCSI Manager on the Quadras; it happens on the 900
- also (don't know about the 950). It is fixed in System 7.1.
-
- David Goldsmith
- Taligent, Inc.
- 10725 N. DeAnza Blvd. MS: PD/3
- Cupertino, CA 95014-2000
- David_Goldsmith@taligent.com
-