Re: Dancing windows

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ladyphoenixxii@my-deja.com wrote:

>It all started when I added a Focus 500 meg to the Ramfast with a ZIP
>drive on a ROM 3.  I switched the Ramfast to an Apple High Speed SCSI
>reinstalled the system 6.0.1, Spectrum and added Prosel to fix.
>
>When I use a word processor, either Hermes or Appleworks GS and start opening
>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.