ramsiri@blake.acs.washington.edu (Enartloc Nhoj) (01/10/90)
For those interested in the solution to my intermittent powering down of my Quantum 80S: THe lubricant surrounding the actuator arm is rendered ineffective due to various circumstances including certain conditions of humidity and dust. The fix is a chip produced by Quantum that can be installed by your dealer that forces a random seek across the platters during periods of inactivity. Apparently the Seagates already do this.. and the "new" Quantums come with the chip fix. So far, i have had my drive running flawlessly for 14 hours.. seems to have done the trick. THought i'd mention the GREAT service given by MacLand in Tempe, AZ. They recieved my drive on Thursday morning, made the chip insertion and ran a test.. had it mailed out THAT DAY Fed express 1-2 day delivery. Can't ask for better service! ALso, Jay Denton, one of the techs, was very concerned and helpful. Apparently, the problem I had is rather common... so if your Quantum starts failing to read/write due to a spin problem.. you may investigate the possibility of getting the rom chip (v. A200) from your dealer. -kevin ramsiri@blake.acs.washington.edu
scott@cs.odu.edu (Scott Yelich) (01/10/90)
Well, the title interested me.... Unfortunately, the message was not about QUANTUM PAINT... Anyway, my quantum paint is a pile of decomposing software and paper. The software is practically useless since, for me, quantum paint always recalculated the pallete for colors for the scan lines of the frame... and in doing so it CHANGES the ACTUAL COLOR of what I have drawn! For instance, I draw 30 lines from the top of the screen to the bottom. Either during this time or shortly after, the system will recaculate the colors and change them (the new colors arent even close). Anyway, the only format that was interesting was the 4096 color mode... but as of yet I have not seen ANY programs that convert from this mode to ANY OTHER mode... like GIF. Anyway, has anyone ever seen a fix/program for either of those two above mentioned problems? If those two problems were fixed, quantum paint would be a decent product worth the money. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scott D. Yelich scott@cs.odu.edu [128.82.8.1] After he pushed me off the cliff, he asked me, as I fell, ``Why'd you jump?'' -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
emuroga@m.cs.uiuc.edu (01/11/90)
I have a 3 1/2" 80M Quantum (purchased through Hardware House) which I got in September of '88. Late last spring, I was having the same problems everyone was reporting: failure to cold boot. The problems lasted about a month (it would start after numerous tries) but then suddenly went away. It has had no problems whatsoever in the last 9 months. Has anyone else experienced such a "miraculous recovery"? I wonder if I have a ticking time bomb ready to go off again? Eisuke Muroga Department of Computer Science | 1304 W. Springfield Ave. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Urbana, IL 61801 ARPA emuroga@m.cs.uiuc.edu CSNET emuroga@uiuc.csnet USENET uiucdcs!uiucdcsm!emuroga BITNET emuroga%m.cs.uiuc.edu@uiucvmd.bitnet