NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #18/NN_1992_18.iso/spool/comp/sys/mac/hardware/15664

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From: [e-mail] (Jeff Cortez)
Subject: HELP! - Problems with Jasmine external DirectDrive
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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 20:31:07 GMT
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I currently have a Jasmine DirectDrive portable external hard disk and
I am going crazy trying to get the thing to work consistently.  If you
have one of these things or if you know anything about how to get it
to work properly please read on.

The problem is that the hard drive does not always mount when the computer
is turned on.  If there are more than one partitions, it will mount all but
the boot partition always, but it is about 50/50 odds that it will mount the
boot partition.  When it doesn't mount, I can get it to mount sometimes by
using the software which comes with the hard drive, but this only works for
a while and even then it can take a half-hour to mount it.  If I can't get
it to mount, the only way I can get it to work is to re-format it.  I have
been having this problem for over a year sporatically, but since Jasmine is
out of business, the only tech help I have been able to get is a suggestion
by another vendor that I should try purchasing other drive software.  Do
you think this will work?  I am just about ready to toss the drive in the
garbage, but I don't have the money to replace it so for now I am stuck so
any help would be appreciated.

Please email to [e-mail] your followups unless you think
that they will be of interest to the rest of the group.

Thanks,

Jeff Cortez