fiver@cup.portal.com (Kevin Michael Vail) (12/10/89)
I seem to have a problem. Maybe someone out there can tell me what it is and what I should do about it. I have a Mac 512KE updated to 2meg and a SCSI port with the Dove upgrade. It's a late 512KE with the extra PRAM (the map and sound cdev's work). Hooked up to this is a Jasmine DD-80, bought back in early 1988, when Jasmine was still the good guys. Everything has worked great together for a long time, but lately the hard drive has developed this annoying habit of crashing. Not hardware crashing, but software crashing. During periods of intense disk activity, if the disk is warmed up (has been on longer than a certain period of time), I can hear the head make the same noise it makes when it automatically unloads when I power down. That's it. If I reset at this point (which I always have to), the hard disk doesn't mount. If I run the program Jasmine supplied to re-install the drivers, it gets a SCSI command error. Other programs seem to notice that that position on the SCSI bus is occupied but no one can communicate with it. It won't mount again until I turn everything off, leave it off for a period of time (the amount of time seems to vary depending on the temperature in the room), and then try again. Unfortunately one of the times of heavy disk activity during which it crashed was while running Disk Express. Ick. Luckily I never run DE except right after I've backed up, so I didn't lose anything, but it was nasty. I thought reformatting might have helped but it doesn't seem to have. Is this something I can do anything about? or something I have to live with? I'd really like to not have to ship the drive back to Jasmine, having heard stores about them here. Especially since it's OK most of the time. Please E-mail responses unless you have problems getting E-mail through. This is one of only two groups that I read on a regular basis but I sometimes get behind on it. Thanks! Kevin Vail fiver@cup.portal.com sun!portal!cup.portal.com!fiver