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From: jmho@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Jeremy Olsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: SE/30 can't find internal disk
Message-ID: <1660@byron.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 7 Aug 90 07:34:20 GMT
Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK
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We have a dozen Mac SE/30 2/40s and 4/40s, purchased in the UK in Mar
and Nov 89.  Within the last six months at least six different
machines have given intermittent startup problems, in that they can't
see the internal hard disk.  They always get better by themselves
through simply switching them off and on although it can take up to a
day (with suitable pauses) for this to happen.  Our supplier, who
gives good technical support, can find no problem (it has always gone
away by the time they get to examine one).  Apple apparently deny
any known problem with machines of this type and age.  Surely this
must be happening/have happened to someone else?  6 out of 12 is just
too much of a coincidence.  Any comments gratefully received.

Thanks

Jeremy Olsen        Phone: +44 31 667 1011 x6470 | University of Edinburgh
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Jeremy Olsen        Phone: +44 31 667 1011 x6470 | University of Edinburgh
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JANET:  jmho@uk.ac.ed.cogsci                     | Edinburgh EH8 9LW Scotland