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- From: prj@gamba.lcs.mit.edu (Paul R. Johnson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Duo Disk Hazard
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.171705.28698@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 17:17:05 GMT
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- I lost, and had to reformat, the disk in my Duo 230 this week
- and thought I'ld pass along the details for other Duo (and
- normal Powerbook ?) owners.
-
- We have some floor standing audio speakers that normally get treated
- pretty much as any other furniture with a flat top surface: i.e.,
- things get put on them all the time. I needed to use the table I
- had my operating Duo on for other purposes so I moved it to the top
- of one of the (also operating) speakers without fully thinking through
- what I was doing. Shortly thereafter the Duo crashed, never to
- reboot until I borrowed a floppy adapter and external floppy drive.
- Disk FirstAid reported that the hard disk was bad but it couldn't
- fix it, so, not unexpectedly at that point, I had to reformat the
- disk and reload all the software.
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- My guess is that the magnetic fields from the speaker were too much
- for the Duo's hard disk shielding. Be warned!
-
- ---Paul Johnson
-