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Re: *WARNING* to Focus Drive (and possibly Sirius RAM card) owners regarding write corruption!
- Subject: Re: *WARNING* to Focus Drive (and possibly Sirius RAM card) owners regarding write corruption!
- From: Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>
- Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 10:09:39 -0500
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: SBC Internet Services
- References: <9fvd41$v9c$1@slb1.atl.mindspring.net> <3B2418FF.E9AE0594@ilos.net> <9g15ql$ol1$1@slb4.atl.mindspring.net> <3B2ADD62.CE5BB7A5@ilos.net>
- Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.sys.apple2:9129
Gary Gouriluk writes ...
>
> 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!
>
....
Very likely.
The combination of a Transwarp accelerator, Expansion Memory, and a Focus
drive represents enough of a load to produce noticeable noise across the
under-sized leads which connect the standard IIgs power supply. (Info about a
fix is at http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/Csa2POWER.html#005 .)
Rubywand