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- From: lingeke2@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Ken Linger)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: SE/30 Drive Problem (Part 2)
- Message-ID: <BtnI7p.LCp@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 16:38:12 GMT
- Organization: Purdue University
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- I'd like to thank the 10 or so people who offered help earlier
- this week when I had a problem with my internal drive mounting.
- Almost all suggested that it was part of Apple's "bad drive"
- supported by the recall.
-
- However, I no longer feel that that is the case.
-
- I took it in to a shop so they could verify that it was, in fact,
- an SE/30 I owned and not a Quadra. They also verified that I had
- a 40 meg drive and not a 5 meg Profile. Anyway (if I sound bitter,
- it's because for $48 / hour, they couldn't find the guy with the
- screwdriver, didn't understand why output was being sent to the
- external monitor when they didn't have one plugged in [the default
- switch wasn't toggled back to Mac only] and I did most of the
- work. On top of that, when he installed System 7 onto the internal,
- it booting up fine. When he booted from a floppy, the internal
- mounted as always. Hence, I paid $28 for them to say nothing's
- wrong.)
-
- When I got the computer home, everything worked. I then hooked up
- the other drives and copied more than just the basic system to the
- internal. On startup, instantly after the "Welcome to Mac" screen,
- it crashes. Either with a blank window quickly being redrawn, a
- system freeze, or with the message "One or more inits is bad, etc."
- although no inits have loaded and the same happens when I hold down
- the shift key and/or remove all inits manually.
-
- Every verification program says the drive is ok (Norton 2 and some that
- came with my HD drivers). Apples Disk Fix can't find the internal drive
- nor can it find 1 other external SCSI drive. Programs can be put on it
- and reliably read off, but it just can't be booted from. For now, I'm
- booting externally, but that is unreliable, plus I have to turn the drives
- on before the computer.
-
- Any more help? Thanks!
-
- Ken Linger
-