allon@eng.umd.edu (Allon Stern) (03/26/90)
I talked with a local dealer friday, and was told that there are problems
with Seagate 40 Meg Drives (apple ones, I think) with bar code label
numbers 0035507 through 1250863. My drive fell into that category,
and it is being replaced sometime this week; the dealer says that it
will most likely be a Quantum.
The problem with the Seagates is (I am told) the same problem as
the Quantums had -- the sticking problem. I noticed that the
drive controller board has no socketed IC's -- it's all surface
mount, so I guess that they would be unable to do an easy ROM upgrade
as Quantum did. The whole unit has to be shipped back to Apple.
Thank god I have a recent backup!
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------george@swbatl.sbc.com (George D. Nincehelser) (03/27/90)
In article <1990Mar26.055907.29899@eng.umd.edu> allon@eng.umd.edu (Allon Stern) writes: >I talked with a local dealer friday, and was told that there are problems >with Seagate 40 Meg Drives (apple ones, I think) with bar code label >numbers 0035507 through 1250863. My drive fell into that category, >and it is being replaced sometime this week; the dealer says that it >will most likely be a Quantum. Does this apply even if your Mac is out of warranty? I have a six month old SE with the above drive. The hard drive is flakey. Once after being shut off for a day, the hard drive refused to spin-up. A hard slap fixed that, however. It still looks as though it has trouble coming up from a cold boot. Am I living on borrowed time? (Lessee here....my Mac is six months old....hmmmm.....guess it's been six months since my last backup.....) -- / George D. Nincehelser \ uunet!swbatl!george \ / / Southwestern Bell Telephone \ Phone: (314) 235-6544 \ / / / Advanced Technology Laboratory \ Fax: (314) 235-5797 \ / / / /\ 1010 Pine, St. Louis, MO 63101 \ de asini umbra disceptare \