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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Need formatter/info for CDC WREN III w/Mac+
Message-ID: <1990Oct25.184334.10732@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 25 Oct 90 18:43:34 GMT
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In article <1990Oct25.024925.26023@ultra.com> rmg@ultra.com (Rich Geiger) writes:

>I also have a question about Unit Attention. This drive apparently
>provides the Unit Attention feature, and can *not* be configured to
>turn it off. From some of the notes that come with SF&I, it seems that
>this can cause problems for Mac Plus's with "old ROMs". Can anybody
>tell me whether there are indeed different versions of Mac Plus ROMS
>that affect whether Unit Attention is or is not a problem? If so, can
>you also tell me what version(s) of the ROMs include the fix?

Get the MacEnvy CDEV, and get it to report which ROM version you have. It
will report Lonely Hearts, Lonely Hearse, Lonely Heifer, or Loud Harmonica.
Loud Harmonica is the only ROM version which will boot drives with Unit
Attention.

If you aren't booting off the big drive, it shouldn't matter.
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Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
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