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From: boomer@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Rich Akerboom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Quantum Hard Drives
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Date: 31 Aug 90 02:33:52 GMT
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Last february I bought a Quantum 105 for my Mac SE. After all the talk about
the Apple ROM's, I made sure that I had Quantum ROMS, and various people 
assured me that with the Quantum ROM's I should have no problems.

A month ago or so, the drive started exhibiting the noisy, continuous seeking
to loosen up the lubricant behavior that has been discussed on the net. Still
OK, since when I do something that involves a disk access, the random seeking
is interrupted for my disk access.

BUT, if my machine hangs/crashes and I need to reboot, and the drive is doing
its random seeking thing, 9 times out of 10 the Mac can't find the drive to
boot from, and just sits there with the question mark icon, waiting for a disk.
Eventually, either it finds the disk (after several minutes) or the random
seeking stops and it can find the disk.

Anyone else experience this kind of behavior? Any comments?

rich
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