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Article #60Re: SONY Magneto Optical Drive Problem
From: Moss Agate
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 00:00
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 00:00
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In article <160720001128364628%mroz@*NOSPAM*mac.com>, mroz@*NOSPAM*mac.com wrote: > I've had a Peripheral Land Inc Magneto Optical Drive for the last 7 > years which has worked flawlessly as a seconary graphic archive. > > Its a SONY SMO-C501-OOE 3.02, Model 59005 (SCSI) which takes 3M 5 1/4" > Double Sided optical discs. > > When I bought it I was supplied with format software 'PLI Formatter > 4.1' and a driver 'PLI RemvInit 4.1' . It has worked fine through > several Mac OS changes ... > > The other week 2 things happened; firstly I upgraded my machine to OS > 9.0.4 and secondly, when moving the drive accidentally moved some of > the 'dip switches' on the back of the machine (there are 3 banks of 6) > > Now I get errors when trying to mount the drive which neither > Silverlining or Hard Disc Toolkit can resolve - it seems to think > either there is no media in the drive or that there is 0k free. > > So I come to the heart of my dilemma ... does anybody know where I can > get an update to the Driver (I have already searched the web > extensively with no luck) AND/OR where I might get instructions which > will tell me how to reset the dip switches correctly? > > I suppose I can't rule out the possibility that it's the drive itself > which has malfunctioned in some way and may need to be replaced. > > Any help or advice you could give me would be greatly appreciated as > would a direct email as well as posting a reply. > > TIA > > Michal > > ps Look out for the SPAM blocker if emailing me :-) > I don't know if they can help, but you can try emailing the following address: inbox@mo-forum.com Good luck, -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~;-) Moss MossAgate gathers no rolling stones Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.
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