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From: rsherman@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (Roby Sherman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: CMS Hard Drive on the Classic
Message-ID: <1991Feb04.171905.9136@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
Date: 4 Feb 91 17:19:05 GMT
References: <57658@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
Organization: The Tao of Programming
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In <57658@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> v084l3m2@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Thomas A Gardner) writes:


>	I have a 40meg CMS external hard drive hooked up to a 
>	Mac Classic.  About 1 out of 3 times when I go to turn
>	on the mac it locks up at the "Welcome to Macintosh" screen.
>	I have tried Zaping the Ram, Re-formating, Re-installing the system
>	I even had the HD replaced with another CMS 40Meg HD.
>	I called CMS and they sent me another formating Disk.
>	That didn't work.  Now they tell me that they are working
>	on the problem.
>	If anyone has any idea what the problem might be please
>	post some solutions.

It sounds to me like your System File is corrupted. I do see that you used
the installer, but the installer doesn't always fix the system.. It could
still be corrupted.. Did you try DELETING the system file and then use the
installer?

That SHOULD take care of the problem. Let me know...


--Robes

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