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From: sdy@ssc-vax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: ?? power supply problems ??
Message-ID: <793@ssc-bee.ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Mar-87 12:01:46 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 23 12:01:46 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 26-Mar-87 06:24:04 EST
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Keywords: external drive


I've recently got a hold of an apple 800k external disk drive for the Mac.

Only it doesn't seem to work on my mac.

I've tested it on a Mac 512 (original apple - no upgrade) and it seems to
work ok, except that my Mac (an original 128k mac with Dr. Dobbs upgrade
thanks to a friend) wouldn't read any of the disks that the external drive
had formatted.

But the real problem is that when I connect the external drive to my
machine it won't recognize any disks -- even ones that I've used for months.
It either thinks the disks are unrecognizable (initialize or eject ..) or
sometimes I'll get a system error box.

Now my mac has been running for about a year with this upgrade and I haven't
had any problems -- In addition I've used 2 different single sided drives with
it and everythings been fine (this was after the upgrade). I seem to remember
that some of the earlier Macs had weaker power supplies -- could this be
causing my external to croak ?? if so how hard is it to fix (upgrade) the 
PS??

steven yee.
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