juliem@hpvcfs1.HP.COM (Julie Mixon) (06/07/89)
Dead Mac II's We have been having some problems with our Mac II's recognizing their hard disc's. We have two dead at the moment and one has been flaky for quite some time. Our machines are Mac II's with one internal floppy disc drive. They have 40MByte hard discs. We called the dealer and all he recommended was swapping hard discs. We would only like to do this as a last resort. Any other ideas or solutions? Or have you also had this problem?
roy@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (John M.A. Roy) (06/07/89)
In article <780008@hpvcfs1.HP.COM>, juliem@hpvcfs1 (Julie Mixon) writes: |We have been having some problems with our Mac II's recognizing their |hard disc's. We have two dead at the moment and one has been flaky for quite some time. Our machines are Mac II's with one internal floppy |Any other ideas or solutions? Or have you also had this problem? I had the same problem a couple of months ago. I just got the bloody thing to spin up, get recognized, AND have not turned it off since. I use the Apple HD initializer to get it to recognize the HD, then canceled out of the initialization process. I'm hoping that running it for a while (6 months or so) will either burn past the built up oil or Quantum will recall them (I'm not holding my breath though :-). Good Luck, John M.A. Roy (714) 856-5039 ICS Dept., Univ. Calif., Irvine CA 92714 Internet: roy@ics.uci.edu
sam@intek01.UUCP (Sam Felton) (06/08/89)
In article <780008@hpvcfs1.HP.COM>, juliem@hpvcfs1.HP.COM (Julie Mixon) writes: > he recommended was swapping hard discs. We would only like to do this > as a last resort. Why not swap? It is not really a big deal. All you have to do is remove two screws and pop off a couple of connectors. However, I have had this happen on my mac II at home twice, and in neither case was there any problem with the hard disk (a Seagate ST-157N MLC-1). Both times this happened to me, the NCR SCSI chip was at fault and a motherboard swap was the only way to fix it. I do suggest trying the hard disk swap yourself to prove that there is no disk failure, however. Believe me, even for hardware-phobes this is not difficult. ---Sam--- /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // I drove all over Hollywood, looking at the stars, // // First I ate my Milky Way, then I ate my Mars; // // Sucking on a Galaxy, I noticed something pretty bizzare: // // There's not a lot of people there, just an awful lot of cars... // // // // ---Thomas Dolby // ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////