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From: Mark_Peter_Cookson@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Need info on Mac MIDI and Jasmine
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Date: 22 Jul 88 08:06:02 GMT
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I must admit that I don't have a Jasmine drive and because of what I am about
to tell you about, I will never own one.

About a year ago I went to a Sysop's conference at Stanford, we were instructed
to bring our HDs so that we could exchange PD files.  One of the sysops had
a Mac 512 that had been upgraded to the + (motherboard and all) and had a
Jasmine 80 meg drive.  Maybe the drive was old, or her ROMs were old, but
something clearly did not work.  I think we got the thing to boot maybe twice
the entire day.  We could boot from a floppy and then mount it with a special
mounting utility they gave her (not very good for a SCSI drive that is
supposed to auto boot), but only once or twice did the drive startup.  Even
on different machines it had problems.  She liked it because it was a big
drive (I have to admit, it was most of 80 meg), but I could not stand to run
a BBS knowing that if the power went off the BBS would be down until I came
home.  Maybe you can tell me why the drive would not boot, but I sure can't
Mark Cookson