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From: mikem@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Mike Morton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: IIcx problems
Summary: Did some repair jobs before the announcement get new PROMs?
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Date: 21 Oct 89 09:26:57 GMT
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Reply-To: mikem@uhccux.UUCP (Mike Morton)
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Andrew J. Worth writes:
>After having my Hard Disk PROM replaced, my Mac IIcx still behaves oddly.
>...Also, now that the drive is "fixed" it sometimes accesses
>the disk constantly and rapidly for no apparent reason until some other
>disk access (invoked by me) happens to stop it.

My SE/30's internal 80Mb (my third drive.. sigh..) has been doing this,
although my last repair was BEFORE Apple announced the PROM fix.  Anyone
know if some repair jobs got the new PROM?

Apparently something is continuously accessing the drive at various 
times, including after I "Shut Down" from the Finder.  I assumed that
the problem, coupled with a single failure to boot, meant that I was
having yet another drive failure.

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