Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!dutrun!duttnph!leo From: leo@duttnph.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: My Mac is sick... Message-ID: Date: 2 Aug 90 08:13:25 GMT References: <11242@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Sender: news@dutrun.UUCP Reply-To: leo@duttnph.tudelft.nl Lines: 42 spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) writes: >This is on a SE/30 running 6.0.5 with 4MB of memory and a 40MB >internal hard disk (Apple-supplied). This is exactly my configuration also. >The machine comes up with an alert box that claims that I have an >uninitialized disk in an external drive on the Mac. Six weeks ago, the same thing happened to my Mac. >I run Gatekeeper and Disinfectant all the time, so I'm sure >it isn't a virus. So did and was I. >Clicking on the "initialize" button in the alert box >results in another alert message that the disk is write protected and >the initialization failed (regardless of the diskette's writability). Idem. Ditto. The same. Major deja vu. El mismo. Hetzelfde. >If it gets sent off, I may not have it back for weeks. Mine has now been gone for six weeks, and I still haven't got it back. The warranty on the Mac had expired two weeks before this happened ... :-( I realize that this posting has nothing very useful to say, but Gene's configuration and problems are so *exactly* the same as mine, that I could have written his posting myself. Therefore I decided to post instead of just mail - I am beginning to wonder if this is a specific, perhaps well-known SE/30-40Mb-4Mb problem. Anybody? -- Leo Breebaart (leo @ duttnph.tudelft.nl) -- Leo Breebaart (leo @ duttnph.tudelft.nl)