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- From: dy@shire.math.columbia.edu (Deane Yang)
- Subject: Troubles with a MacSE
- Sender: dy@math.columbia.edu
- Organization: Mathematics Department, Columbia University
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 22:51:59 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.225159.20502@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
- Summary: Followup on woes with a new internal HD
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- I had posted a long message on difficulties I had in
- replacing an internal hard drive in a MacSE with
- a new one from APS.
-
- The most disturbing problem was the Mac would often
- bomb when booting up. It would, however, usually
- boot successfully the second time.
-
- I finally called APS and the guy there told me that
- one possibility was that the computer was trying to
- boot before the hard drive had spun up to speed.
- To solve this problem, APS has apparently licensed
- a little piece of software (Waittime?)
- that delays the boot by
- a fraction of a second. It's being sent to me
- (and is also available on the APS bulletin board).
-
- I hope this is the right answer, but am a little
- skeptical, because in all my browsing of comp.sys.mac.hardware,
- I've never seen this problem mentioned before.
-
- If you have heard of this before, I would like to hear
- about it. I also want to know if this problem can cause
- corruption of the disk. It seems to me that there may be
- more to my problem than just this. For a while, Disk First
- Aid was claiming that the hard drive was not a Macintosh disk,
- even though the disk would mount properly.
-
- Deane Yang
-