Re: Dancing windows

[ladyphoenixxii@my-deja.com]

In article <20000125024325.02643.00000186@ng-bh1.aol.com>,
  supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:

Sandy writes:  Thanks for the info on the SCSI driver.  The problem
showed up with the Ramfast/driver. I removed the 6.0.1 generic driver.
I did put floppies in the 3.5" drives which helped.  But when I open
volumes the dancing is so bad I can't select and open anything not
in the window.  Will write Wing Cheung about the Tulin driver.  Sandy
> >When I use a word processor, either Hermes or Appleworks GS and start opens
> >files the window keeps opening and closing rapidly. There was a sound with
> >the open windows event and that played like a hiccough. I went into the
> >control panel and turned off that sound, rebooted and it continued playing.
> >As I open more files the problem gets worse and I have been writing text on
> >hermes with the sound hiccoughing along If I drag the mouse it stops. From
> >the desktop when I open partitions enough the files start disappearing.
> >Everything is back on restart. Spectrum may be involved because I once booted
> >from the backup disk on the Zip and had set the Spectrum receive file for
> >something not on this computer.  It danced the light between the daisychained
> >3.5s. Any ideas about where to look.  Sandy
>
> This is a problem with the Apple High Speed SCSI card and the
> generic SCSI hard disk drive driver supplied by Apple with the
> System Software (currently System 6.0.1).  If it really bothers
> you, there is a guy on Compuserve who used to work for Tulin
> that sells a replacement driver that cures the problem.  I just
> keep a disk in the drive or leave it off when I don't use it, though.
> Having a Zip disk in the drive stops the polling problem.  If the
> Zip drive is not in use, turn it off before booting the IIGS.  Or
> if the IIGS is already on, select Shut Down from the menu and
> turn off the Zip drive at the "it is safe to turn off your IIGS" box,
> then click the Restart button.  When you want to use the Zip
> drive again, go through the same process but turn the Zip
> drive on at the same point.
>


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