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- From: howard@locus.com (Howard Moskovitz)
- Subject: System 7 SCSI Problem?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.210546.267458@locus.com>
- Organization: Locus Computing Corporation, Los Angeles, California
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 21:05:46 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- I have discovered a really strange problem with System 7 that is being
- caused (apparently) by my external scsi disk.
-
- Scenario: I have a remote Appleshare volume mounted. Under System 7, if
- I either try to create an alias on that volume or try to open a file on
- the volume with MS Excel (3 or 4) my systems hangs and I have to reboot.
- After extensive testing of software, re-installing system 7 and a
- systematic elimination process I isolated the problem to my external 210
- MB Quantum drive. If I run under system 6.0.7 - no problem. If I turn
- off my external drive (physically power down, just unmounting the volume
- doesn't help) - no problem. In addition, the behavior is very consistent
- - it happens when the operation (make alias or open file) is nearly
- complete - the open fails after the file has been opened but before the
- cursor returns, the make alias fails just before updating the screen
- with a new icon.
-
- Does anyone have any ideas as to what is going on here? Any suggestions
- as to how to diagnose what my drive is doing to upset Sys 7 in those
- scenarios? Any ideas what system call finder's make alias and excel's
- open file routines have in common?
-
- I have spoken to Apple and gotten the usual non-help response " you
- gotta call our 900 number and pay for an answer". They told me to ask
- the net, so I am.
-
- Please email responses, spare the bandwidth.
-
- Thanks in advance,
- Howard
-
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