worth@thalamus.bu.edu (Andrew J. Worth) (10/21/89)
After having my Hard Disk PROM replaced, my Mac IIcx still behaves oddly. I'd tend to blame it on my Radius Full Page Display(?). The problem is that it intermittently bombs in Word 4.0, Mathematica, CricketGraph, ... just about anything. I've nothing in my sys folder but standard Apple issue. With and without the Radius control panel doc, it barfs left and right. Anybody else having problems with a Mac IIcx and a Radius FPD? Also, now that the drive is "fixed" it sometimes accesses the disk constantly and rapidly for no apparent reason until some other disk access (invoked by me) happens to stop it. Andy "the frustrated".
mikem@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Mike Morton) (10/21/89)
Andrew J. Worth writes: >After having my Hard Disk PROM replaced, my Mac IIcx still behaves oddly. >...Also, now that the drive is "fixed" it sometimes accesses >the disk constantly and rapidly for no apparent reason until some other >disk access (invoked by me) happens to stop it. My SE/30's internal 80Mb (my third drive.. sigh..) has been doing this, although my last repair was BEFORE Apple announced the PROM fix. Anyone know if some repair jobs got the new PROM? Apparently something is continuously accessing the drive at various times, including after I "Shut Down" from the Finder. I assumed that the problem, coupled with a single failure to boot, meant that I was having yet another drive failure. -- Mike Morton // P.O. Box 11378, Honolulu, HI 96828, (808) 676-6966 HST Internet: mikem@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (anagrams): Mr. Machine Tool; Ethical Mormon; Chosen Immortal; etc.
joe@amos.ling.ucsd.edu (Joe) (10/24/89)
In (Andrew J. Worth) writes: >After having my Hard Disk PROM replaced, my Mac IIcx still behaves oddly. >I'd tend to blame it on my Radius Full Page Display(?). >The problem is that it intermittently bombs in Word 4.0, Mathematica, >CricketGraph, ... just about anything. I've nothing in my sys folder >but standard Apple issue. With and without the Radius control panel doc, it >barfs left and right. Anybody else having problems with a Mac IIcx and >a Radius FPD? Also, now that the drive is "fixed" it sometimes accesses >the disk constantly and rapidly for no apparent reason until some other >disk access (invoked by me) happens to stop it. >Andy "the frustrated". Andy, Since you didn't mention it, I really suggest you check for instances of virus "infection." I haven't heard of too many virus troubles lately, but you never know... Check around for the various "innoculations" and "vaccines" that are now on the market. I'm not sure what the best of them are, but your technician should know. The "Killvirus" init works fine for me. An easy way to check is to run ResEdit and check the system resource fork for "nvir" or other suspicious-looking resources. If you don't now how to check, there are also programs to do that for you. You shouldn't have to pay anything, because the best of them are freeware. Joe. p.s. I really hope this ISNT your problem. * * "Think, imagine, feel" are words like good and evil; * they mean what you choose them to mean - and nothing more. * If you define them, they fall apart. * INTERNET: joe@amos.ling.ucsd.edu RELAY: joe%amos.ling.ucsd.edu@relay.cs.net BITNET: joe%amos@ucsd.bitnet UUCP: ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdamos!joe
spector@brillig.umd.edu (Lee Spector) (10/24/89)
In article <WORTH.89Oct21033411@thalamus.bu.edu> worth@thalamus.bu.edu (Andrew J. Worth) writes: >After having my Hard Disk PROM replaced, my Mac IIcx still behaves oddly. [stuff deleted] > Also, now that the drive is "fixed" it sometimes accesses >the disk constantly and rapidly for no apparent reason until some other >disk access (invoked by me) happens to stop it. >Andy "the frustrated". I have the same problem: access noise (or something like it) which is sometimes triggered by a normal access but which continues indefinately, or until some later (not necessarily the first) user initiated disk access. (I don't have the access LIGHT going when this happens - do you?) This is also on a IIcx and I have just had my PROM replaced (the problem showed up immediately after the "repair"). I don't have the 3rd party display board that you mentioned (I have all Apple hardware except for my modem), so at least THIS problem is independent of any problem regarding your board. This is indeed quite frustrating. I had my machine in the shop 4 times before the official Apple recognition of this problem. The fifth time was for the official "fix". That's alot of repairs for a 3 week old machine, and it still doesn't work properly! -Lee (spector@cs.umd.edu)
thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com (Ken McLeod) (10/26/89)
In article <20352@mimsy.umd.edu> spector@brillig.umd.edu.UUCP (Lee Spector) writes: > >I have the same problem: access noise (or something like it) which is >sometimes triggered by a normal access but which continues indefinately, or >until some later (not necessarily the first) user initiated disk access. >(I don't have the access LIGHT going when this happens - do you?) >This is also on a IIcx and I have just had my PROM replaced (the problem >showed up immediately after the "repair"). I don't have the 3rd party I also have this problem with my IIcx (Quantum 80 internal). The access light doesn't stay lit once the original read request has been satisfied, but the drive continues to grind away until I deliberately initiate another disk access. It's VERY annoying, and I'd hate to think of it occurring when I've stepped out of the room for a while. I've noticed extreme performance degradation when doing long compiles, or anything that requires an extended period of "normal" disk access... something will trigger the "hyper-accessing", forcing normal accesses to wait for a few spins until the "hyper-access" mode is cancelled... then the fresh "normal" accesses will trigger "hyper" mode again, and so on. Some days the problem has been so bad that I've just shut the IIcx down completely and used another machine. Other days, the problem doesn't show up at all. I haven't really noticed whether the "bad" days were especially humid or not. And it shouldn't matter! Is this a "known problem" yet??? -- ========== ....... ============================================= Ken McLeod :. .: UUCP: ...{spsd,zardoz,felix}!dhw68k!thecloud ========== :::.. ..::: INTERNET: thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com //// =============================================