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From: sean@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Sean P. Nolan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: SE/30 & Cutting Edge 800K external drive
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Date: 11 Nov 89 03:56:11 GMT
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Reply-To: sean@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Sean P. Nolan)
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Hi ho...

I'm using a Cutting Edge external 800K drive on my Mac SE (plain vanilla). 
Just a minute ago, my girlfriend tried to plug it into her Mac SE/30. It
acts rather oddly:

* Upon booting up, the disk icon appears fine.
* Every time you try to initialize a disk, it does so happily and then the
  disk icon disappears and the mac won't recognize the drive.
* Running the installer to try to make a system disk on a floppy in the C.E.
  drive, it says it ran fine but didn't put a system file in the system folder.

Both of those problems have repeated themselves, so it wasn't a one time fluke.
Any ideas? Thanks...

--- Sean

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