MAXG@SUVM.ACS.SYR.EDU ("Gerry Greenberg: 315-443-5378") (12/01/89)
Everybody (or almost everybody) out there knows by now that not all ST drives are able to read a Mac disk when running Spectre or Magic Sac with the Translator 1 (or SpectreGCR). Well I had one of those disk drives...it is a Sankyo (at least that is what it says on it) and was converted from an IBM drive to an ST drive by its previous owner. I bought it before I got my Translator and so I was disappointed to find out that it was one of "those" drives. Well, I have struggled (if you can call it that) with only one drive that reads mac disks by booting in the good drive and then ejecting my system disk and putting it into "the other" drive so that I could put my mac disk into the good one (Yes, I could have changed a and b drives, but "the other" drive is awfully loud...I like it as the b drive). Well, I am writing this to encourage those of you out there who have one of these "other" drives, because for some totally unknown reason, the other day I put a mac disk into this "other" drive...and the drive read the disk! I couldn't believe it, but that drive now recognizes mac disks via the Translator1....I have absolutely no idea why...everything is the same as before, but now the drive works! (I hope this doesn't mean that the drive is "on its way out".) So, for those of you out there with one of "those" drives...try it with the mac disk from time to time....maybe it'll work some day. ---Gerry maxg@suvm (bitnet) ggreenbe@rodan.acs.syr.edu (internet)