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From: calvin@portia.stanford.edu (Peter Chang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: SE/30 HD problem
Message-ID: <1991Mar14.025945.19764@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 14 Mar 91 02:59:45 GMT
References: <1991Mar7.144304.130@otago.ac.nz>
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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. 

	I too have had this problem, and in fact I still have it. The ROM
fix that you mentioned did not fix this, and in fact I think that it
started after I got this ROM upgrade because my Mac refused to 
recognize the SCSI devices. I hope somebody out there knows what is
going on because the noise does not sound at all healthy.

Peter