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From: long@rainbo.enet.dec.com (Richard Long)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Apple to Fix Quantum Drive Failures
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Date: 11 Oct 89 16:37:35 GMT
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In article <957@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM>, ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM (Norman Goodger) writes...
> 
>From the October 10 issue of MacWeek, Cover story...I"ll just post

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>Problem: Increased lubricant viscosity in the hard disk drive arm (HDA)
>assy. Apple's sites high humidity.
> 
>Solution: An extended repair program that will continue to October 1991. 
>The fix will replace a ROM on the HDA controller PWA. Users that have

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umm...err...maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see how the problem
cited above could be solved by a software fix; sounds like a hardware
problem to me...

rich

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