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From: seiler@chrpserv.gsfc.nasa.gov (Ed Seiler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Crashes and compatibility on the IIci
Summary: What really works on the IIci?
Keywords: FDHD drive, IIci
Message-ID: <597@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Date: 12 Dec 89 01:46:04 GMT
Sender: news@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov
Reply-To: seiler@chrpserv.gsfc.nasa.gov (Ed Seiler)
Organization: Goddard Space Flight Center
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  I am now a proud owner of a Mac IIci, and though I have most applications
working or classified as incompatible, I am still experiencing some puzzling
system crashes and hangings. I typically run under Multifinder with a series
of inits, which may or may not be important, though Fresh Start is the first
one that runs. The common thread to the problems seems to be the presence of
a floppy in the FDHD. There doesn't seem to be any other common point. The
symptom is that seemingly innocuous actions such as clicking once on an icon,
trying to close a window, or other basic finder actions cause the system to
either freeze or display a rapidly blinking empty default debugger dialog box.
The other symptom is that sometimes inserting a disk freezes everything except
cursor movement. The crux of my question is to ask if it is reasonable to
suspect the FDHD drive in all of this. I was told that at one time problems
with the FDHD could cause problems at "random times".
  I have 8 meg of RAM, a RasterOps 264 board, and am currently running off
a Cutting Edge Syquest-type drive. Inits/cdevs include SuperClock 3.5,
Boomerang 2.0B8, SoundMaster 1.2, Vaccine, ClockAdjust, Suitcase II,
Pyro, and Calendar Reminder. Pyro and SoundMaster only worked if run after
Suitcase II.

A second issue is that I have Macsbug 6.1, but hitting the programmer's
switch just gives me a blank grey screen. Is this because of the color board,
or are the claims that 6.1 works on the ci false? SuperPaint 2.0 crashes, 
even under the finder with no inits and the monitor set to b/w. Does this
happen on every ci? Finally, Fresh Start SEEMS to work okay, despite reports
to the contrary.

Edward Seiler
ST Systems Corp.
Goddard Space Flight Center, Mail Code 635
Greenbelt, MD 20771
seiler@chrpserv.gsfc.nasa.gov or seiler@dftnic.gsfc.nasa.gov