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From: pevans@umd5.umd.edu (Peter Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: SE/30 HD problem
Keywords: SE/30, hard drive, rattle, fault, help!
Message-ID: <8175@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: 7 Mar 91 15:35:39 GMT
References: <1991Mar7.144304.130@otago.ac.nz>
Reply-To: pevans@umd5.umd.edu (Peter Evans)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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In article <1991Mar7.144304.130@otago.ac.nz> stanger@otago.ac.nz (Nigel Stanger) writes:
>
>Now here's an interesting problem for all you hardware experts
>out there. I have this SE/30 sitting on my desk. Every now and
>then, the hard drive (standard Apple 40 meg) throws a fit and
>makes a rather distressing continuous rattling noise. It sounds
>very much as if the heads on the drive are moving back and forth
>continuously, but the activity light flashes not. 

Yepe, it is VERY discouraging to hear this and not know what is
happening!!  Symptoms are as you describe and I have noticed no loss
of data (I have not gained any either ;-)

I am VERY interested in knowing what this is and what I can do about
it.

Peter