Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!ginosko!shadooby!sharkey!atanasoff!jwright From: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Connor Peripherals Message-ID: <1695@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> Date: 27 Oct 89 01:49:37 GMT References: <1843@eric.mpr.ca> Reply-To: jwright@atanasoff.UUCP (Jim Wright) Organization: Iowa State U. Computer Science Department, Ames, IA Lines: 29 In article <1843@eric.mpr.ca> hui@mprgate.mpr.ca (Michael M.Y. Hui) writes: | Has anyone had any experience with 3.5" winchesters from this | manufacturer? I am thinking of buying their 40 Mb model with embedded | SCSI controller. The hard drive in our Mac II recently flaked out. It is a Connor 40meg unit sold by CMS. It replaced the Apple 20meg unit that also died. This was installed by the official Apple dealer in town (before I got here). I was able to get the drive going again by a *VERY* sharp whack to the side. I removed all data files from the drive and loaded it with only executables. I also removed the system folder. This is quite usable with the attached dual SyQuest 45meg cartridges. [Assuming the cartridge drives work -- the morons at MassMicro put the fan on the bottom of the case, to pull hot air down. It often won't work because of overheating. IDIOTS!] The machine is now never shut down. I believe that the problem with the drive is that it is mounted upside down! Thus all the loading on the moving parts is wrong. The structure which holds the drive forces it to be upside down. (I.e. the droid who installed it followed the directions, for better or worse.) Are all Mac II drives installed upside down? Who's bright idea was this? Or am I way off base here? Why is it that every time I look closely at some piece of Mac-related hardware, I get a sick feeling in my stomach? Mediocre performance is one thing, but bad engineering is another. -- Jim Wright jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (ignore the Reply-To: line)