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From: johnsone@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Unrecognized SE/30 drive
Message-ID: <20200086@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 24 Jan 90 10:40:52 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.

I had the same problem happen two or three times within the first month after
I bought my Mac (SE/30, 4megRAM, 80meg HD).  It was a thing where the first
time or two all I had to do was shut it off and turn it back on and it was
fine.  The last time it happenned, I booted off of one of the system disks from
Apple and fortunately it did find the hard drive.  I called my dealer and their
response was to then use the installer to re-install the system and finder on
the hard drive.  I did as they sugested and have not had any troubles since
(i.e. no problems in the last three months).  Of course, this remedy will not
work if the hard drive is not found even when you boot on another disk.


                                     Erik A. Johnson
                                     Graduate Student, Aero/Astro Engineering
                                     University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
                                     johnsone@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu