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From: lnb@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (L. N. Brosnahan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Unrecognized SE/30 drive
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Date: 23 Jan 90 03:36:45 GMT
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In article <6712@columbia.edu> kearns@cs.columbia.edu writes:
>Hi.  An associate has an SE/30 with the 80meg apple supplied internal
>hard disk drive.  Unfortunately, it recently just forgot about its
>hard disk.  when you turn it on, it waits for a user to stick in a
>floppy.  disk 1st aid does not list the internal hard drive.
>
You have one of the infamous hard drives with the sticky lubricant.  This
happened a lot at Dartmouth.  I think Apple made a recall of all those bad
drives (Mostly in SE/30s and IIcxs).  Get it serviced at a licensed Apple
dealer.
If you want to try something else, there is a voo-doo remedy I heard of.  If
you take the entire computer and give it a jerk, it unsticks the sticky
lubricant and it may run for a while (long enough to back it up).  Don't
take my word for it.  It's probably best to just get it fixed by someone who
can give you a more reasonable voo-doo remedy.

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