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From: mo@well.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Problem adding a second floppy to a II
Message-ID: <4480@well.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Nov-87 23:12:11 EST
Article-I.D.: well.4480
Posted: Wed Nov 18 23:12:11 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Nov-87 14:48:13 EST
Reply-To: mo@well.UUCP (Maurice Weitman)
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Greetings:  I figured I'd try using the drive from an old (not
too old) external drive as a second floppy in my two.  So, I got
a bracket from an SE, a cable from a 128, and took popped it in
all cozy and nice.  One problem: it doesn't work.  When fed a
nice, blank, initialized disk, it says it's unreadable and offers
to initialize it.  When I click two-sided, it tries for two
seconds and says "Initialization failed."  Suspecting the drive,
I replaced it with another with the same results.  I vaguely
recall someone saying something about using too long a cable
being a problem, but mine's about as short as it could be.  The
drives work fine as externals on an SE but no go on the II.

Any ideas???  advTHANKSance.


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