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- From: dkmiller@unixg.ubc.ca (Derek K. Miller)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Solution: Sticky drive and extra space.
- Message-ID: <1isin1INNq3r@skeena.ucs.ubc.ca>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 19:44:33 GMT
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- Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- Last week I posted a few messages trying to resolve a problem: I have
- a Mac IIcx and it had a sticky old 3.5" Sony 40MB hard drive, which
- periodically wouldn't spin up. After several months of whacking the side
- of my machine, putting a lamp above the drive to warm up the lubricant,
- removing the drive and shaking it before booting up, and just generally
- being frustrated (not just by that but also by the fact that 40MB is no
- longer enough storage), I found a cheap resolution.
-
- First, the drive is replaceable by an Apple recall exchange, and my
- University's computer shop had a replacement in stock. Sticky drive fixed.
- Second, I found an old 5.25" Quantum 40MB internal drive from a Mac II
- sitting on a shelf in our computer tech's office, and managed to buy a case,
- power supply,. and SCSI cable setup for the thing for a little over $130
- Canadian (about $100 US). After about an hour's work installing the drive
- into the case, fiddling with jumpers to get it to change its SCSI ID
- (no documentation, of course), and swapping files, I now have 80MB of
- reliable storage where I had only 40MB of unreliable stuff before.
-
- There's nothing remarkable in this, but I'd just like to thank all those
- people who let me know about the warranty exchange and the cable/case
- option for an old internal drive. It worked, and it cost a lot less than
- a new 80MB drive!
-
- :=:=> Derek K. Miller dkmiller@unixg.ubc.ca
- Researcher, Alma Mater Society thegrodd@tz.ucs.sfu.ca
- University of British Columbia, Canada
-
- (Long live netland.)
-