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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: "Rodney Hester" <rod3@mindspring.com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 21:09:47 -0400
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: MindSpring Enterprises
- References: <9fvd41$v9c$1@slb1.atl.mindspring.net> <3B2418FF.E9AE0594@ilos.net>
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"Gary Gouriluk" <gvgouril@ilos.net> wrote in message
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> 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