allon@eng.umd.edu (Allon Stern) (03/19/90)
My 40 Meg Apple hard disk has been having problems. First, let me state that
it is not a Quantum. It is a Segate (at least thats what it says on the
controller board). Lately it will not boot, and when booting from a floppy,
when it tries to mount the HD, it seeks around for a while, then comes back
and says that it is damaged, and do I want to initalize it.
I had a friend come over with his 44meg removable SCSI HD, and when I tried
to show him the problem, the mac booted (Thanks, Murphy!). So, we made a
copy of my HD onto a spare removable HD of his, so I have a current backup.
I then tried initializing the HD with the Apple SC setup program, then loaded
my stuff back onto the drive. But the problem won't go away. What can I do?
Any other thoughts, or suggestions? I'm probably going to wind up taking
it to a dealer and get a new HD in return for the old one (they get credit
for old drives, don't they?). The computer/drive (it's a drive sold by Apple)
is only about a year old -- Oh, sorry, it's a Mac II with an internal drive.
Thanks. Please reply by E-Mail, since I have a couple of programming assignments
and lots of homework, and a test to study for, and may not have time to read
news for a while.
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------rcook@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Robert Cook) (05/03/91)
Sorry, this is with System 6.0.7 In article <1991May2.230817.6784@ncsa.uiuc.edu> rcook@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Robert Cook) writes: >I'm having a problem with my (NEW) hard drive. When I first boot after being >down for more than about 6 hours, the drive hangs while loading the inits. >The select light stays on until I reset, then everything comes up fine. >At first I thought: ok, init conflict, because it seems to happen while loading >the same init everytime (by noticing which icon's are displayed and which ones >aren't). But since this only happens when the machine is "cold", I thought >maybe "stiction". But as someone pointed out to me, stiction went out with >disco, and since I just bought this drive 2 weeks ago this "shouldn't" be >the problem. >So, my question is: Can there be an init conflict only when a drive is cold > and resolve itself after a reset? > >Since I can only play with the inits once a day (maybe twice if I stay up real >late), an init conflict may take days or even weeks to figure out. >Oh, btw, it seems to hang right after Norton directory assistance and before >easy acces and Norton filesaver. > >Any help on this is greatly appreciated, and thanks in advance. > >System: Classic w/ 4MB and Quantum Pro 105 (from APS) > various assortment of inits w/system 6.0.7 > >-- >------------------------------------------------------------- > You wont find any fancy .signature here >------------------------------------------------------------- >Robert Cook (rcook@ncsa.uiuc.edu) -- ------------------------------------------------------------- You wont find any fancy .signature here ------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Cook (rcook@ncsa.uiuc.edu)