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From: ejm@sppy00.UUCP (Eric Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: CMS Hard Drive Question/Help
Message-ID: <918@sppy00.UUCP>
Date: 13 Aug 90 21:58:16 GMT
Reply-To: ejm@sppy00.UUCP (Eric Miller)
Distribution: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: Online Computer Library Center, Dublin, Ohio.
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I currently have a MacPlus with 1mb RAM and a CMS 20mb external hard drive.
About once a week I can't boot the hard drive, I turn the system on and
I receive that ever-so-annoying question mark prompt.  The drive is a little
over a year old, but it's been used rather frequently.  This has been occuring
for about 2 months, but not increasing in frequency.  Someone on the net
mentioned a CMS formatting problem and a low-level formatter that did 
the trick.  I've never heard of that before, but I'm willing to try anything.
Anybody have similiar problems with CMS hard drives?  Is this formatting
problem for real or is my CMS about had it? (Or both!)

Any insight or advice is appriciated in advance...


-- 
Eric J. Miller	               The computer can't tell you the emotional story.
			       It can give you the exact mathematical design,
miller-e@cis.ohio-state.edu    but what's missing is the eyebrows...
ejm@sppy00.UUCP		       -Frank Zappa