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From: sorensen@athena.mit.edu (Alma G. Sorensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: MacIIci with flaky 80Mb Quantum -- what's best?
Message-ID: <1990Nov30.231138.26311@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 30 Nov 90 23:11:38 GMT
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I have a MacIIci, with the 80 Mb drive from Apple. (It says quantum
on the inside.) I bought it in March 90.  Every so often, when I turn
the machine on, the disk access light flashes  a few times, and then
stays on -- but the machine doesn't boot, and eventually the 
disk icon with the X in the middle comes up.  Clearly, it can't
find the hard drive.

Hitting the reset button to reboot the machine gets things working
again; the Mac never misses the second time around. It seems like
some kind of a drive-recognition problem secondary to the Quantum
starting up late or something.

I've reformatted the disk with 6.0.5 (it was doing this with 6.0.4 as
well), and since the Mac never gets a chance to load any of the software,
I have a hard time thinking its due to some init or another.

Is this the problem discussed at length about a year ago about the IIci
and the Quantum drives? If so, how do I get my dealer to recognize
it as such? I descrivbed the features somewhat to the service department
over the phone and they said "sounds like a virus."  The drive does
get recognized about 70% of the time, so I'm afraid if I haul it in
the dealer won't believe me and tell me nothing is wrong.

Any advice?

Thanks,

Greg Sorensen
sorensen@athena.mit.edu