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From: paul@pro-europa.cts.com (Paul Hutmacher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: UDC, SCSI, InnerDrive, No-Slot-Clock, etc...
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Date: 24 Aug 89 00:12:04 GMT
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Comment to message from: att!cbnewsm!tp@ucbvax.berkeley.edu (thomas.a.pierce)

> I'm hearing about the UDC/Laser 800k drive combo. eating disks.  Is
> this -ONLY- when used with an innerdrive or does this happen 'universally' :-)

I've been using a UDC/Laser 3.5 combo for the last year and a half with
varying degrees of success.  I've never had it cause a harder to crash (i.e.
my CMS s2/20s) but it has reached out and destroyed 3.5" disks at one time or
another.

I will add this however:  Since I've moved it to my dedicated ProLine system
and took off the 5.25" disk drive from the UDC it handles the 3.5" drive with
nary a problem.

If I had to do it over again I'd blow the UDC off.  They're junk in my book
but capable of (slowly) backing up a hard drive.

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