Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!midway!mimsy!mojo!russotto From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Toasted Hard Drive Message-ID: <1991Jan5.043807.12079@eng.umd.edu> Date: 5 Jan 91 04:38:07 GMT References: Sender: news@eng.umd.edu (C-News) Organization: College of Engineering, Maryversity of Uniland, College Park Lines: 17 In article penguin@gnh-igloo.cts.com (Mark Steiger) writes: >A friend of mine has a CMS harddrive on his mac and he was told by a dealer >that one of his EPROMS is toast. Could he fix that by buying a new case (Like >Tutlin) or is it in the physical Hard Drive? > >Thanks > >Mark An EPROM is an electronic device which holds programming-- it's not in the case or power supply, nor is it in the physical drive. It is probably on the SCSI controller attached to the drive. Given another identical drive and an EPROM burner, he could copy the EPROM from the good drive and put it in his damaged one. -- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu .sig under construction, like the rest of this campus.