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From: prophet@oxy.edu (Dale Bruce LaFountain)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: HD Problems, another question
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Date: 22 Sep 90 06:04:00 GMT
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Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA  90041
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Just a couple more quick questions:

Should a DMA SCSI card have any effect on Prodos 8 applications if there
is no SCSI device connected to the card?  I disconnected my defective
drive (I plugged it into a Mac and it is indeed dead), and I still can't
get any Prodos 8 applications to make it past the version and copyright
screen.  I'm not sure if this is a feature or a problem; I never bothered
to try it before.  Common sense suggests that it shouldn't interfere, but
since when have peripherals been logical?  :-)

My other question is: What could possibly happen to a DMA SCSI card while
inside the CPU that would cause it to not function correctly?  My TransWarp
was floating around inside for a few hundred miles of freeway (I have no
idea how it got out of the slot; that card fits in pretty tight!), but
I couldn't find any markings or indications of damage.	If I can't somehow
prove that UPS is at fault here, I don't know if they'll like forking out
$800 to pay for this problem, along with $500 to replace my lost (?)
monitor.

Any help would be infinitely appreciated. (Well, at least to some great
power of 10, anyway).

Thanks in advance again,

Dale LaFountain
prophet@oxy.edu