Performa woes

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6 total messages Started by Bob Rockhill Tue, 02 Jul 1996 00:00

#92

Author: Bob Rockhill
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 1996 00:00

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I hope someone noticed that I had been gone for awhile. Here's the 
scoop:

A few weeks ago Tom upgraded my Performa from 8 megs to 20. I was a 
very grateful camper. A few days later, while working on a big project 
with a lot of graphics, my Performa crashed. When I would try to start 
up again, the smiley face would come on and stick there. Nothing else 
could access the Performa-Startup CD, Zip Drive, hard drives. Tom was 
on vacation...Tom should not be allowed to go on vacations. So I went 
to Fry's and bought a new hard drive. It wouldn't fit or work. Found 
out there is a type of Drive called a differential drive. It can't be 
the ID or last drive in the daisy chain. So, I went back and to 
exchange it. I went through about 5 drives and a 45 minute wait 
before I got one that would work. Tom put it in and it does work fine, 
but we can't access my original Apple Drive. The Apple Drive is an AT 
ID drive, not a Scuzzy drive, so we couldn't use anything like scummy 
Probe to work on it. Now I am trying to find a guy who can work on 
drives. CompUSA can't do it. Anyone know where Rick Schultz is in CO?

Bob

Re: Performa woes

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Author: Choralette
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 1996 00:00

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I haven't gotten any response to my queries at Biola. You pick lousy times
to need help, Bob! I haven't been able to access my Biola e-mail today to
see if any answers have come in. I'll let you know if I do hear anything.
-Tina Gunther
Whittier Choralette
Biola Library Tech
WAMUG Secretary

Re: Performa woes

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Author: Tom Calderwood
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 1996 00:00

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I checked around at work, and nobody has any experience with Apple IDE 
drives. Beats the bejezus outta me.

Re: Performa woes

#103

Author: Bob Rockhill
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 1996 00:00

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This is so weird Tom. Nobody I have talked to even knew that these 
drives were being used. I don't get it. Tina has given me a lead at 
Biola, but I'm worried that they won't know about it either. Very 
strange indeed. But, keep looking and let me know if you find anyone 
who knows anything about this. I'd sure like to get one file off of 
there.

Re: Performa woes

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Author: alan
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 1996 00:00

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In article <31E175EB.4589@earthlink.net>, bobrock@earthlink.net wrote:

> This is so weird Tom. Nobody I have talked to even knew that these 
> drives were being used. 

I knew that the internals were IDE. It is the same type drive they use in
the IBMs.  I think they wanted to save money.

Alan

Re: Performa woes

#105

Author: Bob Rockhill
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 1996 00:00

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In one way it is a good thing. I got a 2.5 gig drive for less than 
$400.00. You can't get mac drives as cheaply as the IBM drives. But 
the data recovery problems look to be very challenging to me. Now, 
what I don't understand is that before the crash, Nortons did see the 
drive and could work on it. So could Scsi Probe. But after the crash, 
even though the drive still could begin a start up process, nothing 
could see it in the scsi chain. So, I don't understand that and why I 
can't find some utility that can see it. Obviously, every Performa 
user has this potential problem. Someone must have run into it before 
me, so there should be some history to the situation and a solution 
out there as well. 

Bob

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