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From: man@cs.brown.edu (Mark H. Nodine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: SE woes
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Date: 31 Aug 90 15:17:02 GMT
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I'm posting this message for a friend.  Please reply by email ...

I'm having a problem with my mac SE.  A while ago the machine would
not read the internal hard drive.  Using the silverlining program, it
appeared that the hard drive was defective.  So I bought a new
external hard drive.  I formatted the drive, my mac recognized it,
but within the first half hour of use, the machine suddenly recognized
both the new external and old internal drive simultaneously.  I could
not perform any functions on the mac and both drives were spinning
continuously. I switched off the mac.  Upon turning on the mac again,
the mac began to produce smoke.  I immediately turned off the mac.
Half an hour later I turned on the mac again, and it recognized the
external drive, but as soon as I tried to perform a function, the mac
would not respond.

Help!  In particular, has anyone out there had similar problems with
the hard drive?  Do you think this might be a problem with the hard
drive controller?  Why did the mac start to smoke?