Re: *WARNING* to Focus Drive (and possibly Sirius RAM card) owners regarding write corruption!

[Gary Gouriluk <gvgouril@ilos.net>]

Just to update on my Focus problem... I removed the apparently dead Focus drive
and popped it into another ROM 3 with no other cards in it... and it lives
again!!!

I guess the Transwarp and other cards were too much!

Gary


Rodney Hester wrote:

> "Gary Gouriluk" <gvgouril@ilos.net> wrote in message
> 3B2418FF.E9AE0594@ilos.net">news:3B2418FF.E9AE0594@ilos.net...
> > Do you think this only applies to ROM 3's? If so, it may explain why my
> focus
> > (which had worked with no problems in my old ROM 1,Sirius 4meg) began
> crashing
> > and burning shortly after I acquired a ROM 3, Sirius 4 meg,with Transwarp.
> I
> > had blamed it on the Transwarp. I believe I used the default cache on
> both.
>
> Regrettably, no.  I have since confirmed that this is a design/manufacturing
> defect in early-model Focus cards.  You may wish to contact Alltech for a
> possible repair or replacement, though to be honest, I'd suspect the
> Transwarp's power draw as a major consideration.
>
> Rodney