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From: tmaddox@milton.u.washington.edu (Tom Maddox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Sick IIsi
Message-ID: <1991Apr2.033339.8305@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 2 Apr 91 03:33:39 GMT
Organization: The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington
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	Trouble in mind:
 
	I just got a Mac IIsi from MacFriends--5 megs of memory, Quantum 105 
meg hard drive.  It came with low-level formatting done by T.P.I. Hard Disk 
Management Tools and System 6.0.7, and Disinfectant 2.4 showed that several 
files had corrupted resource forks.  Then, when I tried to copy files onto 
the hard drive, it would copy some but not others, without apparent reason--
I was copying Hypercard 2.0.2 files off new Claris diskettes--giving an
error message something like "File Doesn't Exist."

	So I tried doing a low-level format and reinstall of the system.  The
installer mostly wouldn't work and in fact acted odd:  several times it 
ejected the "System Startup" disk then asked for the "System Startup" disk
(which it accepted when I shoved it back in).  Anyway, once it *did* install
the system, but problems remained:  Hypercard gave weird system bombs (bus
error, mostly), so I decided to get fresh system files from work and try
again.  

	Now the system just won't install:  when I try, I get "Unknown Error -
299."  Ugh.  I can boot off the floppy, but even then, the drive doesn't want
to copy some files (I repeat, this is apparently a random process).

	So, I really hope someone has a bright idea, or I am going to be 
talking to MacFriends in the morning and then, in all likelihood, packaging
up the IIsi and sending it back.
-- 
				Tom Maddox
			tmaddox@milton.u.washington.edu
	"It is imperative to write invulnerable sentences."  --  Hugo Ball