Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!umigw!rsmas!miller From: miller@rsmas.miami.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: CMS Hard Drive Question/Help Message-ID: <8745.26c7243e@rsmas.miami.edu> Date: 14 Aug 90 02:05:50 GMT References: <918@sppy00.UUCP> Distribution: comp.sys.mac.hardware,world Lines: 34 In article <918@sppy00.UUCP>, ejm@sppy00.UUCP (Eric Miller) writes: > 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!) I have had the same experience with a CMS 30 megger which is 1.5 years old but which has seen less than frequent use. So far it only happens occasionally and the problem seems to "cure" itself after a short time. Is my drive headed for (what I would consider VERY) premature death??? > > Any insight or advice is appriciated in advance... Likewise. How about some comment from CMS folks????? > > > -- > 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 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jerry L. Miller INTERNET: miller@rsmas.miami.edu Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami Remember: "It's later now than it's ever been; however, vg'f zber yvxr vg vf abj guna vg unf rire orra orsber."