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- From: sold@kit.uni-kl.de (Christoph Sold)
- Subject: Re: Apple CD ROM. How old is old?
- Message-ID: <sold.56.713828283@kit.uni-kl.de>
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- Organization: Universitaet Kaiserslautern
- References: <4365@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 21:38:03 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- In article <4365@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> stump1@pitt.edu (Robert E Mitchell) writes:
- >Subject: Apple CD ROM. How old is old?
- >From: stump1@pitt.edu (Robert E Mitchell)
- >Date: 6 Aug 92 16:37:46 GMT
- >
- > Hey all, I've got this little problem. A department I'm working
- >with has a brnad new IIci with 7.01 hooked to an OLD Apple CD-ROM
- >box. The CD ROM has no letering on it what-so-ever. Just the apple
- >logo. It's connected correctly via SCSI (ID's are all set right)
- >and the latest ver sion of Apples drivers are tucked away in the system
- >folder. After startup, the Mac can see the drive out there on the SCSI
- >chain. But when I try to insert a CD, it takes it, contemplates
- >reading it for a few seconds, and then spits it right back out. Every
- >time. I just cant mount a disk to save my life!!! I tried everything
- >I know. Anyone out there have any ideas? I'd REALLY appreciate it.
- >
- >Thanks....
- >
- >
- > Stump.
-
- Two things to check for:
- 1) Has your CD ROM a fan? If so, very bad. Take the drive to some
- sophisticated support poeple. They disconnect the fan, and clean the lens
- from the dust blown onto it from the fan. From this point, the drive will
- work. (That happened to mine.)
-
- 2) Are you working in a very humid environment? If so, cooling effects can
- cause condesing water on the lens. Same effect as above, but differnet
- solution: Don't work in a refrigerator! :-) (That does not happen to me.)
-
- -Christoph
-
- Christoph P. Sold CATS Software GmbH
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-
- "If an apple is fun, what the heck is an appletree?"
-