tantuico@andromeda.rutgers.edu.rutgers.edu (Samuel B Tantuico) (07/23/89)
I think I remember a discussion a few months ago about the SE/30 and some problems with it's internal hard-drive. Could someone please e-mail me the details of it.. or where I can find the archives? I'm having problems with my 40 meg drive. At start-up it can't seem to find it, but after booting up with a 3 1/2" disk the hard-drive icon will not appear. ONLY after shutting down and restarting again will it find the hard-drive... -sAm ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- || Youth is when you blame all your troubles on Rutgers-Newark COSII || your parents. Maturity is when you learn that || everything is the fault of the younger generation. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [] tantuico@andromeda.rutgers.edu [] tantuico@draco.rutgers.edu
truesdel@ics.uci.edu (Scott Truesdell) (07/24/89)
tantuico@andromeda.rutgers.edu.rutgers.edu (Samuel B Tantuico) writes: >I'm having problems with my 40 meg drive. At start-up it can't seem >to find it, but after booting up with a 3 1/2" disk the hard-drive icon >will not appear. ONLY after shutting down and restarting again will >it find the hard-drive... Me too. One of the grad students here has a Seagate 3.5" 40MB in her MacII. Does anyone have the range of faulty serial numbers handy that thay can repost on the board. I didn't think we had any of these Seagates in my department... oh well. thanks, --scott -- Scott Truesdell
magik@chinet.chi.il.us (Ben Liberman) (07/25/89)
In article <20018@paris.ics.uci.edu> truesdel@ics.uci.edu (Scott Truesdell) writes: > >Me too. One of the grad students here has a Seagate 3.5" 40MB in her >MacII. Does anyone have the range of faulty serial numbers handy that >thay can repost on the board. From the June 13, 1989 issue of MacWeek: "Drives covered have serial numbers ranging from 00335507 through 01023016...the serial number is near the the drive's 50 pin connector." -- ------------ ------------ ---------------------- Ben Liberman USENET magik@chinet.chi.il.us GEnie,Delphi MAGIK
rory@celerity.uucp (Thomas (Rory) Bolt) (07/28/89)
I have also had intermittant problems with the hard drive in my SE/30. My setup is a SE/30, 4MB ram, and an Apple 80MB internal disk drive (Quantum). The symptom is that the machine will not boot from the hard disk, and if booted from a floppy the hard disk will not show up. I tried cycling the power, zapping parameter ram, etc... to no avail. Usually the machine would just decide to become bootable again of its own free will within 10-15 minutes. Once the machine would not boot for a 24 hour period. Since I am a consultant specializing in SCSI peripherals, I was able to hook up a SCSI bus analyzer when the drive was in its confused state... (a matter of having all the equipment available when the drive was misbehaving - a rare occurance :-) ). Anyway, the drive was reporting a check condition on all accesses to the media. Upon issueing a request sense command, the drive returned a sense key of 0x04 (hardware error) and an extended sense code of 0xC8 (vendor unique error code :-( ). My machine was under warranty so I had my drive replaced, and I told the Apple repair center the information I had found, but to my dismay the paperwork that was sent to Apple said only "Drive won't boot - sometimes.". Since this was a very intermittant problem for me (three occurances in a little over a month of constant use) I am posting this information in the hopes that it will help someone at Apple or Quantum. I have no doubts that when they received my old drive and tested it, they found no problem.
gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu (09/02/89)
A friend of mine had this problem with his SE/30. (Hard disk is not
recognized at power-on, at random times). The problem seemed to go
away when the room was well-refrigerated.
Don Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801
ARPA: gillies@cs.uiuc.edu UUCP: {uunet,harvard}!uiucdcs!gillies