Re: GS + Apple 3.5 non-functional

[dalloff@gcfn.org (Dave Althoff Jr)]

: "Dave Althoff Jr" <dalloff@gcfn.org> wrote in message
: > One more thing...
: >
: > You didn't 'hot plug' any of the drives, did you?  One false move
: > hot-plugging the 3.5" drives...either connecting them to the computer, to
: > each other, or to the 5.25 drives...and you can fry the controller chip in
: > the drive that makes the daisy chaining work.  I don't remember the exact
: > symptom of that problem, whether it is that the 3.5 fails to work, or if
: > the 5.25 fails to work when connected through the 3.5...

Bill Garber (willy4SPAM6pa@comXcast.net) replied:
: I thought about that too, but I figured it wasn't good to
: create a panic in the guy before he tried something simple.

That's a good thought.

: Besides, I have hot-plugged all of my drives to a smart port
: and the only thing that happens is that nothing happens, but
: it is not a good idea to do it. Always power-down to connect
: or disconnect any device.

Well, most of the time, anyway.  8-)

(I was once forced to hot-plug a Disk ][ to avoid expensive data loss. 
That time, I got lucky.)

I've never blown a daisy-chain controller, but I've...well, I didn't watch
it happen, but I saw that it happened and hot-plugging was indicted as the
cause.  At the time we were all rather accustomed to hot-plugging 5.25
drives.  The 3.5 drives changed all that.

(I was the computer equipment crew for an ad-hoc school at the time.  Had
to be the summer of 1987 or 1988.)

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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