>
>Interestingly, one of the drives, a third-party one (Phaser 800 from
>Warp Nine Engineering Inc., Minnesota) consistenly failed to read any -
>even Known Good(TM) - DD floppies when connected to an SE/30 with
>System 7,1, but worked flawlessly when connected to the Plus, System
>6.0.8. Anybody want to suggest an explanation for this behaviour? (Bad
>cabling/connectors have been ruled out.)
>
I guess it must have someting to do with the way system 6 handles
(external) floppy drives. System 6 does allow some stuff that is not
possible with system 7 like ejecting startup disks, so you might expect
some other things to work differently too. Of course the peope who build
the phaser 800 did a bad job, because peripherals like external
floppydrives are supposed to keep on functioning properly when a newer
system version is used.
Marten
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