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Article #62SONY Magneto Optical Drive Problem
From: Michael
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 00:00
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 00:00
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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 :-)
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