Re: ID a 3.5" Drive

[grover@emunix.emich.edu (Grover Thomas)]

In article <1994Mar29.185617.1@acad2.alaska.edu>,
Malone <astdm@acad2.alaska.edu> wrote:
>I am having compatibility problems with it on a gs.  I does not want to boot
>anything I own.  If I boot GS/OS (off the HD) and there is a disk in it, it
>shows up, I can open the disk and see the files but when I try to run anything
>off of it it dies and give me a window with 'ProDOS Error = $0027'.  I then
>return to finder.  After playing around I found that I can format a disk on it
>and then copy files to it and it will run the files.  I have only done this
>with a few things so far so I am not sure if there is a limit to what I can do
>with this.  My question is does anyone have an idea of what this is?  Perhaps
>there is a driver problem?  Compatibilty?  Anything you can tell me would help. 

     Although I can't place the drive itself, it sounds like your trouble
may be an alignment problem with the read/write heads.   I had a similar
problem with my Apple 3.5" drive a few years ago (only reading disks that
it formatted itself).
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