Re: 3.5 inch disk drive for IIgs (apple brand) - Not workingproperly! Help!

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Sam Latella wrote:
> I tested 3 othe drives with the IIgs.  I still think its not the controller
> or the drive itself.
>
> Everything worked well before.  The other item which could be suspect is I
> have a Ramfast revD v3.01f working properly with a scsi drive, and I hooked
> up a Zip drive recently to the Ramfast as well... Both items work fine, but
> doing some research I found that the Zip Drive could conflict the the Apple
> 3.5 drive.... Anyone else have these results?  If so, what would be the fix
> besides taking the Zip Drive off the Ramfast?

If you suspect the Zip drive of causing the problem, remove it and
re-test the 3.5 drive.  This will settle the issue of incompatibility
on your system, then you can consider alternatives knowing the source
of the problem.

-michael

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