pascal@CAM.ORG (Pascal Gosselin) (11/01/90)
Just thought you folks might like to know that *YES*, indeed, the Mac IIsi casing, standard brackets, standard cables and power supply DO work with half-height 3.5 inch SCSI drives made by Quantum. I swapped-out the factory-installed Conner 40meg for a 105Meg ProDrive and it works great. However, I was unable to make the Conner drive work in a generic external SCSI casing. Seemed like some kind of power adjustment problem in the casing's power supply (ticking sound similar to badly adjusted power supply on Radius accelerator equipped Mac Pluses....). I am also interested in obtaining the specs for ALL of the Conner's connectors (led, scsi ID, + misc undocumented stuff) in order to complete my migration efforts!!!! -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Pascal Gosselin | Internet: Pascal@cam.org Applelink: CDA0585 | | Gest-Mac Inc. Apple VAR | Voice (514) 767-4444 Fax (514) 767-7337 | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
kevin@crash.cts.com (Kevin Hill) (11/05/90)
From kevin Mon Nov 5 02:24:33 1990 Received: by crash.cts.com (smail2.5) id AA05745; 5 Nov 90 02:24:33 PST (Mon) To: /u2/kevin/.article Subject: HELP: My hard drive won't save data! Date: Mon Nov 5 02:24:33 1990 Message-Id: <9011050224.AA05745@crash.cts.com> From: kevin@crash.cts.com (Kevin Hill) If any can HELP me, please send me mail! My 20meg hard drive seems to work fine, it boots, it reads, the data that is on it is not corrupted in any way that I can find. I can run apps from it, and I can read file successfully from it. Now the problem, it does not want to save any files. Anywhere. The problem cropped up one day after I accidentally turned the computer off when it was shutting down, but before it was finished. I tried to reformat it, it said it failed to initialize. I tried to rewrite the driver, failed. Basically, any attempt to write to the drive fails. However all reads succeed with no problem. I have tried to switch the number of the drive, (the SCSI number that is) but it also fails to do this. I have yet to switch cables, as that might be a problem, but I don't think so. My best guess would be that it is a software write protect that is causing the drive to reject any write command given to it. IF YOU CAN HELP, PLEASE DO!! I HAVEN'T LOST ANY DATA YET, BUT I MIGHT if I succumb to my frustration and throw my HD out the window :*)! Kevin Hill.