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- From: dtarico@violet.ccit.arizona.edu
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- Subject: Spectre GCR troubles
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.130117.1@violet.ccit.arizona.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 20:01:17 GMT
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- My spectre GCR has been acting up recently. It is pretty stable running from
- the hard drive, but the floppy drives have been having trouble. I am
- running a Mega 4 ST, Spectre 3.0, and system 6.0.5. I also have an external
- floppy drive. The internal drive always gives errors on the 8 sec/track
- part of the GCR test. That could be related to interference, and since I have
- the external drive, I just use it. The external drive passes all of the
- GCR tests. But under Mac mode, I get some weird problems. Disk errors happen
- fairly often. What is even stranger, is that I can copy files to and from
- the hard drive and things work ok. But when I try to use files on the
- floppy drive, I get errors. For example, I work with Macwrite a lot. If I
- copy the file from the floppy to the hard disk and work with it there, I have
- no problems. But if I try to work with the file on the floppy disk, the file
- gets screwed up pretty bad. Real Macs don't have any trouble working from
- the same disks that the GCR has trouble with.
- Does anybody have any ideas what could be causing this? Yes, I have checked
- all the cables, tried adjusting the dashpot. Is Macwrite not completely stable
- under Spectre? Could it be that something is messed up on my hard disk?
- Thanks for any help!
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