kearns@read.columbia.edu (Steve Kearns) (01/23/90)
Hi. An associate has an SE/30 with the 80meg apple supplied internal hard disk drive. Unfortunately, it recently just forgot about its hard disk. when you turn it on, it waits for a user to stick in a floppy. disk 1st aid does not list the internal hard drive. Any suggestions on what might have happened, or how the disk data could be recovered? -steve (kearns@cs.columbia.edu)
dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott) (01/23/90)
In article <6712@columbia.edu> kearns@cs.columbia.edu writes: >Hi. An associate has an SE/30 with the 80meg apple supplied internal >hard disk drive. Unfortunately, it recently just forgot about its >hard disk. when you turn it on, it waits for a user to stick in a >floppy. disk 1st aid does not list the internal hard drive. > >Any suggestions on what might have happened, or how the disk data could >be recovered? Hmm. Mine did the same thing a couple of weeks ago. I only had it for 2 days and one morning the disk just wouldn't spin up. I ended up putting it in the shop, where it's been for the past 10 days (good ratio - it's been in the shop 5 times as long as I had it). -- David Elliott dce@smsc.sony.com | ...!{uunet,mips}!sonyusa!dce (408)944-4073 "Never call a crazed psychotic a crazed psychotic."
lnb@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (L. N. Brosnahan) (01/23/90)
In article <6712@columbia.edu> kearns@cs.columbia.edu writes: >Hi. An associate has an SE/30 with the 80meg apple supplied internal >hard disk drive. Unfortunately, it recently just forgot about its >hard disk. when you turn it on, it waits for a user to stick in a >floppy. disk 1st aid does not list the internal hard drive. > You have one of the infamous hard drives with the sticky lubricant. This happened a lot at Dartmouth. I think Apple made a recall of all those bad drives (Mostly in SE/30s and IIcxs). Get it serviced at a licensed Apple dealer. If you want to try something else, there is a voo-doo remedy I heard of. If you take the entire computer and give it a jerk, it unsticks the sticky lubricant and it may run for a while (long enough to back it up). Don't take my word for it. It's probably best to just get it fixed by someone who can give you a more reasonable voo-doo remedy. -- | "To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, creeps in this petty pace | | from day to day to the last syllable of recorded time; . . . It is a | | tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." | | ---- L.Nicholas.Brosnahan@Mac.Dartmouth.EDU ---- |
johnsone@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (01/24/90)
In article <6712@columbia.edu> kearns@cs.columbia.edu writes: > Hi. An associate has an SE/30 with the 80meg apple supplied internal > hard disk drive. Unfortunately, it recently just forgot about its > hard disk. when you turn it on, it waits for a user to stick in a > floppy. disk 1st aid does not list the internal hard drive. I had the same problem happen two or three times within the first month after I bought my Mac (SE/30, 4megRAM, 80meg HD). It was a thing where the first time or two all I had to do was shut it off and turn it back on and it was fine. The last time it happenned, I booted off of one of the system disks from Apple and fortunately it did find the hard drive. I called my dealer and their response was to then use the installer to re-install the system and finder on the hard drive. I did as they sugested and have not had any troubles since (i.e. no problems in the last three months). Of course, this remedy will not work if the hard drive is not found even when you boot on another disk. Erik A. Johnson Graduate Student, Aero/Astro Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign johnsone@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu
ramsiri@blake.acs.washington.edu (Enartloc Nhoj) (02/01/90)
Expires: References: <6712@columbia.edu> <18735@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Sender: Reply-To: ramsiri@blake.acs.washington.edu (Enartloc Nhoj) Followup-To: Distribution: Organization: University of Washington, Seattle Keywords: In article <18735@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> lnb@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (L. N. Brosnahan) writes: >In article <6712@columbia.edu> kearns@cs.columbia.edu writes: >>Hi. An associate has an SE/30 with the 80meg apple supplied internal >>hard disk drive. Unfortunately, it recently just forgot about its >>hard disk. when you turn it on, it waits for a user to stick in a >>floppy. disk 1st aid does not list the internal hard drive. >> >You have one of the infamous hard drives with the sticky lubricant. This Forgive me if this problem has already been solved.. i am new to the mac group.. sifting through over 1000 articles... Anyway.. i have a Quantum 80S which recently began read and write fails due to irregular spinning.. symptoms were slow-down.. then idle a bit.. and maybe come back up to speed.. eventually, i had to restart several times to get the drive going.. I investigated the problem and learned of the "sticky" actuator arm fluid.. conditions precipitating the failure may be humidity or dust.. in my case.. probably both.. my system lives (and so do i) in the basement of a house built in 1906... (i could live upstairs.. but my wife won't let me have my computer in any room she deems liveable...).. anyway.. i sent my drive off to MacLand.. they promptly put the new Quantum rom chip on the drive.. been three weeks and my drive has run flawlessly.. Apparently, lots of dealers have the chip and it is a very easy install.. if the drive is under warranty (2 years for Quantum) , don't let them charge you for a thing... Anyway.. it cost me $20 to ship it .. they paid return postage.. -kevin ramsiri@blake.acs.washington.edu