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From: kovar@popvax.harvard.edu (David C. Kovar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: another HD40 bites the dust
Keywords: hard disk 40 warranty
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Date: 21 Aug 89 13:46:53 GMT
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In article <19180@mimsy.UUCP> spector@brillig.umd.edu.UUCP (Lee Spector) writes:
>In article <9984@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> bgwilkes@cognito.Princeton.EDU (Ben Wilkes) writes:
>>
>>Well, you guessed it: after booting perfectly the first every time, including 
>>the first two today, my SE/30 hard drive refused to spin up tonight...
>>[stuff deleted] what have other people done (bang on case, tilt machine,
>>etc.) which has gotten their moribundhard drive to respond?  
>
>Try booting while holding down command AND option.  I have no idea what this
>does (if anyone else knows PLEASE POST!) but it has worked for me.
  Command-Option on boot rebuilds the desktop. I'm sort of surprised it
helped with a disk that refused to spin up.

  For the record my SE/30's disk went last night for the second time. It
refused to boot the day I got it. When I took it in, they determined that
the logic board was faulty and replaced it. After reading all these
horror stories about disks dying I backed up my disk on Saturday afternoon.
Saturday night it refused to boot. (Actually, it finally did about two
hours later.) So it's back in the shop. 

  I htink we should stop posting stories about disks dying. It's like
a rash of teenage suicides - they start cascading. Just think, YOUR SE/30
just saw this article and thought "Well, if this guy's disk can do it, so
can I!" (I refuse to accept liability, by the by.)

-David C. Kovar
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