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From: schorsch@oxy.edu (Brent William Schorsch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Rodime 450 RX problems...
Message-ID: <131333@tiger.oxy.edu>
Date: 4 Dec 90 19:08:48 GMT
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA  90041
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I have a MacSE (two floppy version) in which I had an authorized apple
dealer remove one drive and instal a rodime 450RX hard drive. This was a few
weeks after I bought my mac in June 1988. For about 1.5 years now I have had
to deal with a neurotic hard drive...
Every onece in a while, when my hard drive feels like it, it "kur-chunks"
i.e. it sounds exactly like it is auto-parking, yet the power is
still on. I could be in MSWord, maybe some game, maybe NSCA Telenet, it
makes no difference. It has done this for system 5.0, 6.02, 6.03, 6.05...
I am planning on buying an external hard drive this christmas & I wondered
if it would be worthwil to have the 450RX removed & sent back to rodime,
I have had my dealer look at it but he is unable to duplicate the problem
(it has happened about twice in the last month & I use my mac 4-18 hours
a day... this is why I have been able to live with it...)
I have reformatted at least twice with no change...
Another possiblity I am considering is using Silverlining to reformat
my drive, but I don't know if this will work or help...
Other symptoms I experience are: if I use the programmers switch to reboot,
it takes years... (like 5-10 min), it also takes this long after a
"kur-chunk". If I do a restart from the finder, it is relativly fast,
as is a "rb" from Macbug. "rs" in macsbug is slow however...
I run a lot of INITs but I don't believe this is the problem because I am
*)% sure it has happened with no INITs, also I don't think it could be
a virus, as it has been happening for too long to be undiscovered & I
have current versions of SAM and Virex...
Thanks in advance!
-Brent Schorsch (schorsch@oxy.edu)