Re: Focus Card Problems

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

noone@nowhere.net wrote:

>I'll add my experience here.  I can't run my focus in slot 7 because it
>will fail to boot.  At first it will work fine, then for no apparent
>reason it will stop booting.  I can reformat it and it will again boot
>when in slot 7, but eventually it will fail to boot.  I use mine in slot
>5 now with much greater reliability.  It should be noted that I never
>loose the data, but it stops booting.
>
>David\\Julie Wilson wrote:
>>     I've got a problem with a FocusDrive card. First, I bought one back in
>> April. Attached a known working drive to it. Stuck it in slot 7 (in a
>IIgs).

Hearing about all this intermittency and slot-sensitivity indicates to me
that there is a serious margin problem with (at least recently produced)
Focus cards in IIgs's.  Perhaps one or more chips on the Focus card
are slower now than when the design was created.  Or perhaps the
design was always marginal, but fast components masked the problem.

Someone (Tony?) should try to get to the bottom of this.

-michael

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