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Re: SONY Magneto Optical Drive Problem

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From: Moss Agate
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,
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Moss
MossAgate gathers no rolling stones


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