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From: rat@madnix.UUCP (David Douthitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Disk drive troubles
Summary: Maple Leaf Drive is A-OK!
Message-ID: <563@madnix.UUCP>
Date: 22 Mar 89 22:44:08 GMT
References: <1285@wpi.wpi.edu> <343@tahoma.UUCP>
Reply-To: rat@madnix.UUCP (David Douthitt)
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Organization: ARP Software, Madison, WI
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In article <343@tahoma.UUCP> prl3546@tahoma.UUCP (Philip R. Lindberg) writes:
| One note of caution, to you and to everybody else out there.  I use to have
| a //e with two drives.  I wanted to reduce space and my dad wanted a "another
| true Apple drive" so I gave him one of mine and bought a Mapleleaf
| half-height. I had nothing but trouble with it.  I send it back twice, etc.,
| and finally retired it to a read only position.  Anyhow, years later, my
| sister "smoked" her //e's drive (and controller card) and came to me for
| help.  With my //gs I really only use my 5.25 drives a little so I gave
| her my Apple 5.25 drive/ controller and reluctantly hooked up my
| Mapleleaf to my Central Point Univ.  Controller with my other 3.5 as #2.
| I have been using this configuration for weeks now and have had
| _NO_ problems with the Mapleleaf drive!  It reads, writes, slices,
| dices, and makes julian fries!! I've been bitching for along time about
| how bad a drive the Mapleleaf was and now I'm eating crow.
| 
| So, what I'm trying to say is: don't be so quick to rag on AE and their drive.
| They make a lot of _good_ products.  Check to be sure its not something else
| in your machine first.  Okay?

I don't know about an AE drive - all I know is my local Applied Engineering
dealer does NOT recommend it.

As for a Maple Drive, I used to have lots of problems with it - it or the
Disk II controller I had (genuine Apple).  I ran them in an Apple II+ with
a Microsoft Z80 card, and the troubles continued after an upgrade to a PCPI
StarCard.

However, after I purchased an Applied Engineering Disk II Controller, the
problems went away!

One other note - I ran the Locksmith disk test on the Maple drive and I thought
something was wrong - there were no dots on the screen!  So I ran it again
with the optimum speed selected as the center line - I never saw a disk speed
line so straight in all my life!  I would buy another Maple Leaf Drive...
and would recommend it IF you could be assured the blimin' reseller will
NOT exchange the Maple for some other drive.

         [david]

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