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- From: stine@jeeves.ucsd.edu (Blaine Stine)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: AccessPC is NOT compatible with most 128meg Magneto Opticals!!!!!!!
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- Date: 31 Aug 92 22:22:15 GMT
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- Organization: University of California, San Diego
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- Well we just purchased AccessPC (2.0) and ran into problems I
- thought people should know about. If you read the manual on pg7
- their manual lists all the 128meg drives that the MultiDriver
- is supposed to be compatible with but *beware* if you follow
- the instructions and do the following:
-
- 1) Format the MO disk on the PC using whatever software came
- with the drive. Copy files to it (I copied a bunch of TIFF
- images)
-
- 2) Install AccessPC on your Mac and hook up the MO. The
- partitions will mount, you can open the files (I used
- Photoshop 2.0) , then save the changes.
-
- 3) Go back to the PC and you will not be able to read or write
- to the MO disk!
-
- 4) Go back to the Mac, mount the PC disk and the files will
- be corrupted.
-
- I haven't figured out what AccessPC is doing to the disk and if
- the changes can be fixed on the PC with Norton or something,but
- basically it doesn't work like they say it does. I called
- Insignia about and got the run-around from three people before
- someone gave me some straight talk and said the developer
- tested
- the the driver with an IBM 128 MO mechanism only! Even though
- it says directly in the manual it is compatible with the Sony
- 301. So now I'm awaiting a patch that is "supposed to fix the
- compatibility problem". Also their Media Formater does not work
- with the Sony 301 either....So if you have a 128MO and want to
- use AccessPC with it be sure you have a handy backup ready!
-
- Blaine Stine
- awaiting a patch...
- stine@jeeves.ucsd.edu
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