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From: chai@hawk.cs.ukans.edu (Ian Chai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Hard Drive Problems
Message-ID: <1991Mar14.073958.10224@hawk.cs.ukans.edu>
Date: 14 Mar 91 07:39:58 GMT
References: <15707@chaph.usc.edu>
Organization: University of Kansas Computer Science Dept
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In article <15707@chaph.usc.edu> tchi@sal-sun54.usc.edu (The Answer Company) writes:
>Hi everyone.  I almost had a heart attack today when I flipped on my hard
>disk and all I got was a click.  About a minute later and after flipping the
>on/off switch like a madman, the drive powered on.  Is this another one of
>those spindle lubrication problems?  The drive is a Cutting Edge Wedge 30 and
>I think the mechanism is a Seagate ST138N(?), the one everyone has on their
Welcome to the club. The same thing happened to me last year with my Ehman
(a.k.a. Cutting Edge) 30 Meg. It kept struggling along for a few months and then
finally died, but fortunately *after* I had gotten a TEAC tape backup system
so I didn't lose any data.

>My voice mail messages to Cutting Edge has been unanswered and I'm tired of
>calling long distance to Wyoming.  Am I better off just getting another
>(read larger too) hard disk?
I had *exactly* the same problem with them. I sent my drive for repair and every
time I tried to call them I got transferred and put on hold, ad infinitum, and
then somebody would hang up on me. Finally, they told me that "the power supply
is dead" and wanted $325 to fix it! I could buy a new 30 meg for a bit more than
that, so I said, hecque with it, and they wanted $25 for just looking at it...
sigh. Then when I got it back, I asked the local hardware guru (which I should
have done so in the first place) and he said power supplies were no problem --
they were pretty cheap and you could order one mail order and attach it -- or at
least, *he* could attach it -- for not much difficulty. So I think that's what
I wanna do. Mainwhile, I have bought another, bigger, HD (from someone other
than Ehman/Cutting Edge, of course...)
(BTW, yeah, the 30 meg was out of warranty, of course -- it was 2 years old.
This new HD I got, I have a 3 year warranty on it... It's a MacDirect
Fujitsu 135 meg I got for $600.)

Ian Chai
chai@cs.ukans.edu
2fntnougat@ukanvax.bitnet