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- From: udarryl@mcl.ucsb.edu (Darryl 'Well)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Mac SE Internal HD mystery (Miniscribe 8425SA 20 MB)
- Summary: Something fishy with this SE
- Keywords: Mac SE Miniscribe Internal Hard Drive HD Mystery
- Message-ID: <udarryl.721560618@mcl>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 09:30:18 GMT
- Sender: news@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu
- Lines: 52
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- again i throw my problems onto the collective shoulders of y'all :}
-
- a friend of a friend has brought me her Mac SE with FD/HD. it has one
- meg of ram, and a 20 MB Miniscribe 8425SA hard drive.
-
- upon initial investigation, i got a hard drive that seemed to spin up
- (we heard it whirr and sort of click in gear), but saw only a floppy
- with a ? in it. no disk drive light.
-
- after checking all the symptoms in the dead mac scrolls, i had a hunch
- to try plugging in my roommie's external hard drive into the se.
-
- for whatever reason it worked, IF the external hd was on. apparently
- it doesn't matter which kind of external hd, cause it worked with mine
- as well. (different mechanisms, different scsi id's)
-
- so far, i've checked termination (replaced the terminators on the internal
- hard drive, tried to hook it to a cable with an external terminator),
- and well, that's about it.
-
- in terms of what else i've done, i've backed it up, and installed
- system 6.0.8 (it was previously running 6.0.3).
-
- same story. no happy mac (and it would boot from the internal!) until
- i plug in an external hd. and no, i don't think the solution is to
- buy an external hd :}
-
- by the way, does anyone know where i can get system 6.0.5 now that
- ftp.apple.com no longer "carries" it, and apparently the new policy in
- our campus bookstore is that they no longer distribute system
- software...
-
- system 6.0.8 eats up too much of her skimpy 1 mb, and for her
- purposes, IF her system was smaller, one meg would be all she needs.
-
- ANYWAYS...norton's came up pretty clean when i ran it on the internal
- hard drive (after plugging in the external to get it to show up,
- otherwise nortons scans and scans the scsi bus to no avail)
-
- i also used silverlining to test the drive, came up clean for bad
- blocks, seek, read/write tests....
-
- very strange...any suggestions would be greatly appreciated :}
- please e-mail me responses at:
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- "Girls are like parking spaces--all the good ones are already taken" --Anlo Liu
- "Everywhere I go, it seems to say `no parking'" --Jimmy Yu
- Darryl Lee, UC Santa Barbara udarryl@mcl.ucsb.edu
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