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- From: cblaise@moose.uvm.edu.UUCP (Chris Blaise)
- Subject: Cleaning Macs
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.235046.13216@uvm.edu>
- Originator: cblaise@moose.uvm.edu
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- Organization: University of Vermont -- Division of EMBA Computer Facility
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- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 23:50:46 GMT
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- In our lab this past semester, we've had SEVERE problems with
- our machines "eating" Mac diskettes. By "eating", I mean a user comes in
- with a fine disk and by merely putting the disk into the machine
- (and doing nothing), they are unable to use that disk either on that machine
- or anything else. Norton II reports problems with the volume, and
- a disk recovery using Norton is about 50-50%.
-
- I am suspecting the drives.
- (Sound right to anyone?)
-
- Now, coming from my HS, I have been used to tearing apart
- most machines, be they PCs or Macs and basicly tearing them apart
- and cleaning each part with vaccums, cleaning the disk heads, etc.
- I've done this extensively on PCs, but not much at all with Macs.
-
- The Macs I have my eyes on are CXes, which have not gone through
- any sort of cleaning procedure in the year and 6 months that I've worked
- here, and seeing that they're about 3-4 years old, I don't think they
- every have.
-
- So I have a few questions:
- 1) Does the problem with Macintoshes "eating" disks sound like
- a definete drive problem?
- 2) Are there any BIG differences between tearing the entire drive down
- and say a PC's 3-1/2?
- 3) Any advice on things to look for/things to avoid (we have some SE/30s
- that are even older and I do know about the "right" way to remove
- the monitor clips ;)
-
- Thanks!
- TTYL
- Chris
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