Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sphinx.UChicago.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!moku From: moku@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (mark william francillon) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: Disk Drive Problems ? Message-ID: <757@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Jul-85 20:21:35 EDT Article-I.D.: sphinx.757 Posted: Mon Jul 1 20:21:35 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jul-85 07:20:38 EDT References: <917@sdcsla.UUCP> Organization: U. Chicago - Computation Center Lines: 16 Sounds familiar. Being left-handed, it was natural for me to put the external drive on the left set of the Mac -and that's the way I first set the machine up. Within the first week I started having trouble copying files to the external drive, and things quickly deteriorated to the point where it claimed that every disk I inserted was unreadable. Took the drive in to my trusty dealer ...who could of course find nothing wrong with it. Hooked it back up and everything worked fine [you can imagine how sane I felt at that point]. That is, everything worked fine for a couple of weeks. Then the same deteriorata. So I started fiddling everything I could think of, and finally hit on the right-side-of-the-machine solution. And it's been all sweetness and light since then. p.s. Things also work perfectly well with the cable going straight out from the back of the Mac and the front of the drive facing away from the machine. But this isn't the handiest arrangement.