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From: whit@milton.u.washington.edu (John Whitmore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: REMOVABLES TRASHING HARD DISKS ???!!!
Summary: Happened here a while back; but it was our fault.
Message-ID: <8988@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 11 Oct 90 05:05:17 GMT
References: <9549.26f8a1f0@rsmas.miami.edu> <1990Sep21.121008.21131@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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In article <1990Sep21.121008.21131@watserv1.waterloo.edu> psych@watserv1.waterloo.edu (R.Crispin - Psychology) writes:
>I have a DPI removable that I have used on SE/30 and IIcx with all sorts of
>wierd combinations of hard drives (from several old 20 meg apple drives to
>a 320meg micropolis) and have never had a scrambled drive.

	A friend of mine had a hard disk scrambled when he attached
his cartridge drive for backup, and we KNOW why it happened; the
cartridge drive and the hard disk were BOTH SCSI address #0.
That's guaranteed to confuse ANY file system.  Recovery was possible,
and our hats are off to Norton Utilities for Macintosh (which
was the tool that did the job).  
	Set the cartridge drive ID carefully, before connecting.

		John Whitmore