toyama@sierra.Stanford.EDU (Keiichiro Toyama) (06/10/90)
I have a strange problem. I recently acquired a SE/30 and a Quantum 170MB internal diskdrive. The Quantum drive was formatted by Alliance Power Tool from Alliance Peripheral Systems. Files were copied to the Quantum drive from my old Jasmine DirectDrive 70 and SuperMac XP40. The Mac has 5MB memory and 6.05 system. When I was playing around with my new Mac SE/30 and double-clicked a certain folder, the Mac just froze. I tried the interrupt switch in vain and needed to reset it. Before this, I was able to open that folder with no problem. But ever since this happened, every time I double-click that particular folder, the symptom repeats. I also tried a open-command from the menu and command-O key combination from the keyboard with the same result. I was able to copy that folder to the Jasmine drive or floppy diskket, and even opened the copied folder and lunched the files inside. I then copied back the folder on the Jasmine drive to the Quantum internal drive with success. However, when I double-clicked this new folder on the Quantum drive, the Mac froze again. Next time I tried to copy the folder on the Jasmine drive to the Quantum drive, the Mac froze in the middle of the copying process. I also tried to copy a file inside that folder on the Jasmine drive to the Quantum drive and obtained the same frozen Mac. I replaced system files with fresh ones from the system tool diskkets. The problem persists. I checked the Quantum drive with SAM Virus Clinic 2.0 for virus infection. No infection found. I use a utility program to read all the blocks of the Quantum drive with success. I finally erased that folder from the Quantum drive and went to bed. The next morning when I was using the Mac, all of the sudden the same problem happened again to a different folder. Then another folder was affected. It seems the symptom is spreading. I have little idea what is happening although it seems the symptom is particular to the SE/30 & Quantum drive combination because I have no problem when the files were moved to other disk drives. Any idea? Any suggestions? I desperately need help.
markf@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Mark Foster) (06/11/90)
From article <684@sierra.stanford.edu>, by toyama@sierra.Stanford.EDU (Keiichiro Toyama): > I have a strange problem. > Lottsa stuff'n' details deleted > Any idea? Any suggestions? > > I desperately need help. One thing that you don't say is wether or not the drive access light stayed on when the machine froze. I had a similar problem on a brand new SE 2/40 with quantum internal drive. As it turned out, the drive was found to have some BAD sections on it and froze whenever access was attempted to those intermittently BAD bits. The supplier replaced the drive. Hope this doesn't alarm you too much but your problem reads exactly like mine was. Mark. -- ---Don't take life so seriously.----------///---..You won't get out alive.--- Mark Foster, Computing Service | C= /// | markf @ syma.sussex.ac.uk University of Sussex, Falmer | \\\/// | mef @ cluster.sussex.ac.uk England. BN1 9QH +44 273 607418 | \X// | ccfa3 @ cluster.sussex.ac.uk