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From: danking@castor.usc.edu (Dan King)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Hard Disc Failures
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Date: 29 Aug 89 01:31:03 GMT
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In article <13768@brunix.UUCP> omh@zaphod.UUCP (Owen M. Hartnett) writes:
>I have had *two* 80M Apple (Quantum) drives go south - both in IIcx's 
>bought through Apple Partners program.  I have AppleCare contracts now on
>both.  I moderate the Boston Computer Society's MacTechGrp and asked if
>anyone else had a similar problem.  There was only *one* other IIcx owner
>in the crowd and his was going south, also.

(description of symptoms deleted)

>Owen Hartnett

The Quantum 80 in my SE 30 recently died 12 days out of warranty.
Does Apple have any plans for replacing these drives?  If they don't,
does Quantum have any warranty of their own that is, perhaps, a bit
longer than 90 days?

Does anyone know anything that can be done with a dead drive?

Dan King