Re: Focus Drive //e woes

["William Garber" <willy46pa@garberstreet.com>]

"Mark Percival" <mark.percival@a2central.com.remove-q6z-this
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: To: wkatz
: William Katz wrote:
: >Let's say I get a new/refurbished 2 1/2" laptop
: >hard drive for use with the Focus Card (either the
: >same 172mb ibm dha-2270 drive, or a similar drive)
: >and attach it to the Focus Card in slot 7 of my
: >platinum //e.
:
: If you're going to replace the drive then I'd
: recommend getting an adapter for a Compact Flash
: card.  This is what I did for my //e.  It cost me
: $1 + S&H for the adapter plus $5 + S&H for a 256MB
: CF card.  I picked up all the parts on eBay.
:
: The advantage to this is:
:
: - your //e now runs silent, no hard drive noise.
: - the CF card gives off very little heat.
:   (I assume this means it draws less power)
: - CF cards can be purchased new.
: - (anybody thing of anything else?)
:
: >Where would I get the Focus Format utility? : )
:
: I bet Bill Garber has it on his web site.
: If he doesn't he probably could be talked
: into putting it up.

FOCUSUTL.2MG is uploaded to my site and under
"Disk Images".

: Be advised that the Focus Format utility
: requires a IIgs running GSOS. Once your
: drive is partitioned then you can use it
: in a //e.
:
: > Could I simply use one of the ProDOS
: > utilities to partition and format the
: > drive?
:
: No.


I shall be soon upgrading my Focus drive to
CF card, and will post any problems I have
on my web site. Not sure when I will do it,
but I'm not happy with a hard drive in mine
either.

William Garber
Email Address - willy46pa@garberstreet.com
Alt. Email - willy46pa@comcast.net
Web address - http://www.garberstreet.com