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- From: palane@iastate.edu (Paul A. Lane)
- Subject: Re: flakey Cutting Edge HD
- Message-ID: <palane.715992088@pv742a.vincent.iastate.edu>
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
- References: <1992Sep8.191948.12177@ucselx.sdsu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 22:41:28 GMT
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- In <1992Sep8.191948.12177@ucselx.sdsu.edu> maxc0724@ucselx.sdsu.edu (Q) writes:
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- > I found an extra Cutting Edge 60+ hard drive lying around, and tried
- >to use it. The thing works fine only if it's not the startup drive. Whenever
- >you try to use it as the startup drive, it only boots one time out of twenty,
- >with no apparent reason as to why it worked. Wouldn't be too much of a problem
- >but I'd like to use it one a plus with no hard drive. I dont have the manuals
- >for the HD, but I've tried just about everything I could think of. I dont
- >believe it has internal termination, but it wont work with or without an
- >external terminator. I've tried different cables, but that doesn't help either
- >I've tried all SCSI addresses. I booted from a floppy, and the HD shows up on
- >the desktop. The HD works fine except for that one problem. If anyone could
- >help, I would greatly appreciate it.
- >
- > maxc0724@ucselx.sdsu.edu
- > Carlo Quinonez
- >.
-
- I had a similar problem with my internal. I originally purchased it from
- APS and then purchased SilverLining for the drive (optimization among other
- features). Some time after upgrading to S7 (so I wasn't sure if that was
- the problem), it began to not mount, though if I quickly turned my Mac on
- and off (so it would reboot), the hard drive would show up.
-
- I gave my old copy of SilverLining to a friend (he upgraded it) and downloaded
- a new driver from APS. After backing it up and reformatting it, it seems to
- work fine. Moral of the story: a new driver might solve your problems. As
- Ehman/CE has bugged out, I might suggest Drive 7 or FWB's formatter.
-
- Paul A. Lane
-