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From: JEILOLA@MTUS5.BITNET (johndan johnson-eilola)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Help--crashes on SE/30 & ci
Message-ID: <90300.130914JEILOLA@MTUS5.BITNET>
Date: 27 Oct 90 18:09:14 GMT
Organization: Computing Technology Services, Michigan Technological Univ.
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I've been having some strange (but similar) problems on two macs I use:
At first, I have problems copying files from the hd to floppies (Finder
gives an error message and skips the file).  Soon, double-clicking
icons hangs the machine (within a week or two of the copying problems);
The machines also hang during important things, like running SUM Tuneup
& Retrospect.  The first machine this happened on was an SE/30 4/80
running System 6.0.5, Disinfectant 2.3, Gatekeeper & Gatekeeper Aid
(neither of which report any virus activity).  A few weeks later,
I had the same problems with a IIci running the same general setup.
On both machines, I ended up having to reformat the hard disk &
reinstall.  However, since I've had to reinstall most of the stuff
from earlier backups (I have original disks for the programs, but
data files & utilities are only on the backup disks), I'm worried this
is going to start all over again.  Does this sound like a problem
with the hard disks (both have 80 meg disks, and both machines were
ordered from Apple around the same time)?  Or is this some type
of virus or something that my virus programs aren't catching?  I'm
starting work on my dissertation, and I'd feel better if I didn't have
to keep worrying about the machines when I have other things to do.