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- From: esky@marathon.cs.ucla.edu (Eskandar Ensafi)
- Subject: Hard drive doing strange things & OD question
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.223521.475@cs.ucla.edu>
- Keywords: od optical hard disk drive
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- Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 22:35:21 GMT
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- Hi,
-
- Occasonally, my hard drive (internal 330 MB, original cube) has failed to start
- up (no whirring sound and the machine doesn't boot). I used the ROM monitor
- bsd command, and it said "Waiting for drive to get ready......................"
- and again, it never booted.
-
- This doesn't always happen, but it's annoying. When I power off my cube and
- turn it on again, everything is fine and the hard drive powers up.
-
- Sometimes, it powers up alright but I hear the whirring die down and then pick
- up again -- under these circumstaces, the machine boots but the hard drive
- noise shouldn't die and come back like that.
-
- What could the problem be? (PLEASE REPLY BY E-MAIL -- THANK YOU!)
-
- - Eskandar
-
- P.S. OD question: do all NeXT internal OD's supplied with the original cubes
- eventually die after a while, or is it possible to have an OD running without
- problems for 4 or more years?
-