sk2f+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU ("Seth D. Kadesh") (10/21/89)
I hope this goes where I'm trying to send it... A while ago I wrote about a strange thing I noticed: >>A strange thing I've noticed: I have a one drive system (3.5). When I >>boot up the system disk, and eject the disk (manually) as soon as the >>finder is up, and insert a new disk, the new disk is not recognized. I >>have to eject the disk, and re-insert it. I don't know that this is an >>important bug - or even if it is a bug, but it's nothing I've ever >>noticed before. Then I got swamped with work at school, and didn't touch a computer for three days (the agony! :-) Dave Lyons replied to my original post: >Since this does *not* happen on my machines, I need more information before >I can learn anything useful from it. >First, hardware. Is this an Apple 3.5 drive or a Unidisk 3.5? Is it attached >to the SmartPort connector on the GS, or is it connected to an card? (The >Apple 3.5 drive has the "paperclip hole" inside the eject button; the UniDisk >3.5 is white and has the hole elsewhere [below the button, I think].) Sorry that the original post was unclear. I think I posted at 3 AM or so... anyway, Yes, it's a 3.5 drive, connected to the smartport. I have a none apple brand 5.25 drive chained to the back of the 3.5 >Are you booting System Software 5.0? If it's an Apple 3.5 drive, do you have >the AppleDisk3.5 driver in your System:Drivers folder, and is it active (use >Icon Info on that file from the Finder)? (Ditto for UniDisk 3.5 and the >UniDisk3.5 driver.) I'm booting the system disk that was shipped with TML pascal II (my mysterious problem with TML turned out to be lack of memory. I now am the proud owner of a 1 meg GS). Yes, I have the 3.5 driver on the disk, and it is activated. >You say the new disk is "not recognized," and I don't know what to conclude >from that. Does the System Disk icon "dim" when you eject the disk? When >you insert the new disk, does the drive's light come on at all? Does anything >change on the screen at all? What happens is this - I've done some experimenting. When the finder comes up on the screen, if I eject the system disk (3.5) at anytime up to and including the check of the 5.25 drive for a disk, the icon for the system disk will be dimmed. That's what's supposed to happen. But if I now insert a new 3.5 disk, the drive light does not come on, and the icon for the disk is not displayed on the desktop. I must then eject the disk and re-insert it for it to appear on the desktop. I have not tried this with a disk in the 5.25 drive. Now I'm starting to wonder if the bug is in the finder. Or maybe that wonderful 3.5 drive is in need of some dire repairs... A GS PORTABLE? Come on, people. Get real. :-) -- > --Dave Lyons, Apple Computer, Inc. | DAL Systems > AppleLink--Apple Edition: DAVE.LYONS | P.O. Box 875 > America Online: Dave Lyons | Cupertino, CA 95015-0875 > GEnie: D.LYONS2 or DAVE.LYONS CompuServe: 72177,3233 > Internet/BITNET: dlyons@apple.com UUCP: ...!ames!apple!dlyons > > My opinions are my own, not Apple's. -seth a physics/computer science major in four acts Carnegie Mellon University ========================================================> tHe mAd ScienTisT, | sk2f+@andrew.cmu.edu and other carnations. | P254SK2F@CMCCVB >>tmS software systems<< | smile - it makes people wonder <========================================================