Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!cci632!ritcsh!ultb!ritvax.isc.rit.edu!CER2520 From: cer2520@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Curtis E. Reid) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Problem With My Mac Message-ID: <1991Mar12.184539.23336@isc.rit.edu> Date: 12 Mar 91 18:45:39 GMT References: Sender: news@isc.rit.edu (USENET News System) Reply-To: cer2520@ritvax.isc.rit.edu Distribution: comp Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology Lines: 25 Nntp-Posting-Host: vaxf In article , kaplan@pogo.cs.umass.edu (Alan Kaplan) writes: >I have an SE/30 and, all of a sudden, the following dialogue box is >continually being posted to my screen: > >--------------------------------- >| This disk is unreadable: | >| Do you want to initialize it? | >| | >| Eject Initialize | >--------------------------------- > >THere is no floppy in the drive and the message goes away when I >choose either Eject or Initialize. > That might be due to the fact that your hard disk is going to go bad. Make a backup (using such as DiskFit) of your hard disk then run SUM (or other equivalent utility) to repair the disk. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Curtis E. Reid CER2520@RITVAX.Bitnet (Bitnet) CER2520@RITVAX.isc.rit.edu (Internet)