Re: MAC-disk replication-virus? (Mac)

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From: Mark Anbinder
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1992 19:23

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Mr Gordon S Byron says...

> A user brought my an external 40 MB Hard Disk yesterday which
> she said "wouldn't work". After using various SCSI tricks I got
> the dosk to mount. It replicated itself 6 times on the desktop?

This is characteristic of a SCSI ID problem.  It's possible that the
drive is set to SCSI ID 7, which is reserved for the Macintosh itself.
If not, it may have the same ID as another SCSI device on the chain,
or the controller may be bad.

I would suggest not trying to write to the drive.  Aiming for the one
"in the middle" doesn't work as well with SCSI volumes as with
participants in drunken brawls. :-)

                  PLEASE ACKNOWLEDGE THIS MESSAGE.  
  Some of my outgoing mail has not been arriving at its destination.
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