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From: lengge@chx400.switch.ch (Thomas Lenggenhager)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: MacIIfx vs. CD-ROM
Message-ID: <1990Nov22.140112.22384@chx400.switch.ch>
Date: 22 Nov 90 14:01:12 GMT
References: <1990Nov17.230151.9843@rice.edu> <9716@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> <1990Nov20.193839.14695@rice.edu> <9728@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> <36122@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: lengge@chx400.switch.ch (Thomas Lenggenhager)
Organization: SWITCH Zuerich, Switzerland
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In article <36122@cup.portal.com> Michael_J_Ward@cup.portal.com writes:
>My fx at work is now functional and I wonder about bringing in my apple
>cd-rom drive. Has Apple made any progress in fixing the incompatibilities?
>
>BTW (although this is software, not hardware), Closeview caused system 6.0.5
>to hang completely. C'mon team, this is absurd. I had to pull it back out of
>the system. It does not make sense to include files on the distribution disk
>that cause OS crashes...

I haven't followed this discussion from the beginning. However I first had
troubles getting my Apple CD ROM drive running on my Mac IIfx with System
6.0.5 and CD ROM Installer 3.0.1. Finally I solved the problem by using a
short SCSI cable instead of the longer one I used in the beginning.

The same longer cable didn't gave any problems when I connected either the
HP ScanJet or the Bernoulli drive to the IIfx.

I didn't have any further look into that problem why the CD ROM behaved
differently since my problem was solved.

Thomas

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