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- From: fisher@ncselxsi.uucp (Chuck Fisher)
- Subject: Re: FDHD Problem (HELP!)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.225701.12126@ncselxsi.uucp>
- Organization: National Computer Systems, San Jose, CA 95131
- References: <93027.091747ICBAL@ASUACAD.BITNET>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 22:57:01 GMT
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- In article <93027.091747ICBAL@ASUACAD.BITNET> <ICBAL@ASUACAD.BITNET> writes:
- >I have an old MacII, with a Dove Marathon 030 accelerator. Some time back
- >we bought two FDHD drives and installed one of them in my MacII. It reads
- >800K disks fine, but all 1200K disks are read as being damaged, with bad
- >sectors, or totally unreadable. (The same 1200K disks read fine on other
- >Macs.) As we had bought two FDHD drives from Apple, we tried swapping the
- >upgrade ROMs, and then tried swapping the drives. Same problem. The drives
- >worked fine when put into a IIsi, but refuse to work in my MacII.
- >When the drives are installed in my MacII, the diagnostic program "Peace of
- >Mind" indicates the disk drive is bad, but all other hardware is OK.
- >
- >I have run out of things to try, and have essentially given up, and
- >switch to another machine when I need to use a High Density disk.
- >Has anyone else had this experience, or any suggestions? Is there some
- >incompatibility with the Dove Marathon 030 and the FDHD?
-
- Did you install the PROM upgrade in the Mac II? It's required before
- the SuperDrive will work correctly.
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