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From: miller@rsmas.miami.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: REMOVABLES TRASHING HARD DISKS ???!!!
Message-ID: <9549.26f8a1f0@rsmas.miami.edu>
Date: 20 Sep 90 15:03:12 GMT
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In article <1990Sep19.215751.16401@ccu.umanitoba.ca>, 
       umcarls9@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Charles Carlson) writes:
> I'm having a problem connection my Seagate 296N hard drive onto a SCSI
> chain.   The drive works perfectly when connected by itself, and on
> the two Mac IIs I have tried connecting it to with internal Quantums.
> However when I tried to connect the drive to a Mac with a Sysquest
> removable <I don't remember the brand> the drive would not work at all.
> We tried all combinations of termination possible...My disk ended up
> getting garbled and needed to be reformatted.   
[...]

And in separate article which arrived on my system only minutes later,
     rex@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Rex Sanders) writes:
>Setup:	Mac II with 80 Mb Rodime internal HD
>	new DPI 44R (Syquest) cartridge disk on external SCSI
>		internally terminated.
>
>Problem:  Turn OFF power to the DPI, but leave everything attached.
>          Power up Mac II.
>	  BOOM - 80 Mb internal HD scrambled.
>	  Spend 2-3 days recovering files using SUM II.
>	  Could not recover from backups - that's what we attached the DPI for!
>	  Repeated problem (accidentally) twice.
>
[...]

So, the obvious question is "Are removables (perhaps Syquest's in particular)
trashing hard drives for no reason?". If true, this is a rather alarming
development in view of the fact that many of us have recently invested in
removables as backup devices.

Let's hear from any others who have had similar problems to those described
above AND LET'S HEAR FROM _COMPANIES_ _WHICH_ *SELL* _REMOVABLES_, particularly
DPI and Syquest.
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