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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
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Subject: Re: Help! Sad Mac code?
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Date: 15 Aug 90 20:34:15 GMT
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In article <5075.26c95f65@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> samx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
>Help! My hard disk decided to fry yesterday- an occurence I've been expecting
>for some time now.  But what has me worried is that when the disk is connected
>and I try to boot the Mac, I get the "sad mac" face with the error code
>"000000F"
>"000000A"    Does anyone know what this error code means?  All I know is that
>it signifies some hardware error, but I surely hope the problem is not in my
>mac.  With the disk unconnected, the Mac will boot fine off a floppy.
>Any information or comments would be most welcome!

What is probably happening is that the mac is trying to execute the corrupt
driver code contained on the drive-- since the code is corrupt, it crashes.
It probably isn't anything to worry about as far as your mac goes.
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Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
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