Re: Quantum Fireball with Ramfast

[zelix@parka.winternet.com (Peter Handel)]

In article <DI3FE8.AIH@serval.net.wsu.edu>,
mark lyon <o9938156@unicorn.it.wsu.edu> wrote:
[snip]
>I have a Fireball 540, and I don't remember if anyone has said this, but
>this is what happens with my RamFast.  First, I turn on the drive, then
>when it is up to speed, I turn on the computer.  Very shortly, the drive
>parks it's heads, spins down, and flashes error code 17 at me (I presume
>that the drive access light blinking in the sequence long pause-one
>flash-short pause-7 flashes means error code 17).  

The exact same thing happens to my Quantum FireBall 1080MB drive.  I
believe the RF is sending various signals to the drive, and thus it
blinks randomly.

My FireBall was advertised as having the "New MR Head Technology"- its
access time was 9ms as opposed to 11ms that other Quantum FireBall 1080Mb's
had.

>I called LaCie to find out what this means, and the person I spoke to
>told me that these drives have no error codes.  :P

I'm not sure wether to send the drive back and get another one or just
continue using my Apple HS SCSI...the RF does fly with my SyQuest 44MB,
especially in ProDOS 8.

>Mark Marr-Lyon
>o9938156@unicorn.it.wsu.edu


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