Re: *WARNING* to Focus Drive (and possibly Sirius RAM card) owners regarding write corruption!

[warnken@nospma@mother.com]

Rodney wrote:
 
>Is the 'Buggie' power supply a "drop in" replacement for the Apple one, or
>is it external?  Does it require wiring changes (the "fattening" of leads
>I've read about) on the MB?
 
It's external.  It's a PC power supply with about 5 feet of wire.  I don't worry about heat problems.  I don't for sure know the anatomomical location of those fat deficient leads. The wires going to the white connector that plugs the power supply into the motherboard are quite a bit thicker (insulation reads 18 awg, 600V if that helps).  The metal end on the wires is also bigger and glued in.  I assume they are beefed up.
 
>> I have an old and new Focus.  The old Focus still works but it's slowly
>>going south.  The save files function of AWGS - and it began to happen >>with Spectrum saving text files too (so figure that out - S key or >>gremlins).  I have had to boot the old Focus HD to copy data via SCSI >>drives as I have to arrange making 17 partitions fit in 11.<<
 
>This sounds suspiciously like the same type of write corruption I'm seeing >bet you dollars to donuts that if you copy AWGS from floppy over your
>currently-kinda-working copy, it'll fry it forever.
 
Actually the problem turned serious at tax time.  Since this computer is attached to the HP printer that I use for letter quality printing I did a lot of trouble shooting with AWGS, including reinstalling from a couple of different AWGS program disks onto different partitions.  I ran AWGS off the floppy drive under GSOS 6.0.1 too.  Didn't fry anything and the problem didn't improve.  The system prints okay so I did the WP and SS work on another computer, copied it to a floppy and transferred it over to t
his machine to print.  I doubt the problem has changed in 3 months.
 
>Do you happen to know if they offer out-of-warranty replacement (for a fee, of course)?<
 
No.  I didn't ask.  

Sandy