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From: kevin@crash.cts.com (Kevin Hill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Mac IIsi and Half-Height Quantums. Yup!
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Date: 5 Nov 90 10:24:47 GMT
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From kevin Mon Nov  5 02:24:33 1990
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Subject: HELP:  My hard drive won't save data!
Date: Mon Nov  5 02:24:33 1990
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From: kevin@crash.cts.com (Kevin Hill)


  If any can HELP me, please send me mail!
  My 20meg hard drive seems to work fine, it boots, it reads, the data that is
on it is not corrupted in any way that I can find.  I can run apps from it, and 
I can read file successfully from it.   
  Now the problem, it does not want to save any files.  Anywhere.  The problem
cropped up one day after I accidentally turned the computer off when it was      
shutting down, but before it was finished.
  I tried to reformat it, it said it failed to initialize.  I tried to rewrite
the driver, failed.  Basically, any attempt to write to the drive fails.  However
all reads succeed with no problem.
  I have tried to switch the number of the drive, (the SCSI number that is) but
it also fails to do this.  I have yet to switch cables, as that might be a 
problem, but I don't think so.  
  My best guess would be that it is a software write protect that is causing
the drive to reject any write command given to it.

  IF YOU CAN HELP, PLEASE DO!!  I HAVEN'T LOST ANY DATA YET, BUT I MIGHT if I 
succumb to my frustration and throw my HD out the window :*)!
  Kevin Hill.