[comp.sys.mac.hardware] Problems with FDHD drive

jwagner@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Joseph Wagner) (10/17/90)

Recently, I have been having some problems with the SuperDrive on my SE.
The drive is less than one year old, but it has been eating disks left and
right.  It seems to do it on one particular occasion.  If I insert a 800K
disk and chose Erase Disk from the special menu, it ejects the disk saying
that the initialization failed!!  Any advice out there as to what is wrong?

Thanks in advance and please e-mail.

Joe
jwagner@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu

"Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable."
       - Woody Allen

tisue@tartarus.uchicago.edu (Seth Tisue) (10/18/90)

I've been having the exact same problem with the FDHD drive in my Mac SE/30,
purchased December 1989.  Disks, both 800K and 1400K, fail randomly and fairly
often, too.  I'd really like to hear what someone at Apple has to say about
this.