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- From: rhorn@csws8.ic.sunysb.edu (Robert Horn)
- Subject: Re: SUMMARY: Frozen SE/30 HDs
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.232323.7548@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
- Keywords: stiction
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- Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 23:23:23 GMT
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- In article <16NOV199214283324@rosie.uh.edu> englhq@rosie.uh.edu (Franklet, Duane L.) writes:
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- [stuff about stiction deleted]
-
- >Several people had written to tell me that these drives,
- >apparently Sony 40 MB, were subject to a recall or extended
- >service period wherein Apple would replace them free.
-
- >It sounded too good to be true, but I called my service center
- >and read the number off the hard drive. They looked on a list
- >and said, You bet, bring it in and we'll replace it. FREE.
-
- were the SE/30's the only mac's affected by this? I have a Classic (don't
- laugh, yes, I know I bought a preobsolescent machine, but I prefer to
- think of it as "Tried and Tested Technology" :) 4/40 in which the internal
- hard drive has apparently gone "wobbly" (not that I know it wobbles, it
- intermittantly doesn't store data properly, and the HD SetUp program cannot
- initialize it. I can format it with ETC Tools, but it won't boot properly
- with System 7.0.1/tuneup 1.1.1, and gives a sad mac code, which I can't
- remember of the top of my head.)
-
- Does anyone have the info on which machines/drive serial numbers are
- incriminating? I'd love to have the drive replaced for free, but I don't
- really feel compelled to actually take it in to a dealer and pay to
- have it fixed, since I have a larger external drive with lots of room.
-
- Any info would be greatly appreciated,
- Robb
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