es2j+@andrew.cmu.edu (Edward John Sabol) (05/22/91)
I'm having problems with a 3-year-old Rodime 600RX (69 MB). It will crash occasionally when I restart (never shutdown-turn back on scenario; only restarts). It seems the boot blocks get trashed big time. Norton gives the error "SCSI Error, Bus Busy" when it tries to do anything with it. This has been happening on average about once every nine months. Recently, it happened three times in a span of three hours. Once during formatting Silverlining encountered a bad block, but when I reformatted again, it didn't find it which I thought was interesting. I have an external Maxtor which I have never had the slightest problems with. What I want to know is if there is anyway the problem could be with my Mac II or (more obvious interpretation) the Rodime just plain sucks. The place I take it to get repaired is a good distance away and would be in the shop for considerable time before I could get it back, so I thought I'd post to the net for a more informed opinion. I'm also considering purchasing a replacement drive and have narrowed it down to the Quantum 210 and the Maxtor 213. I'm leaning towards the Maxtor since it is supposedly faster, quieter, 3 megs more capacity, and is $40 cheaper according to APS advertisement in MacWeek. Thanks for any info you can give me. +-------------------------------+---------------------------------------+ | Edward J. Sabol | Arpa: es2j+@andrew.cmu.edu | | Carnegie Mellon University | Bitnet: es2j@ANDREW.BITNET | +-------------------------------+---------------------------------------+ | "The streets that Balboa walked were his own private ocean and Balboa | | was drowning." - August Wilson | +-------------------------------+---------------------------------------+