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From: pss4@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Paul S Shannon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: weird HD crash
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Date: 19 Apr 91 06:08:27 GMT
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Hi, I'm wondering if anyone can tell me what might have happened.

Early this week, I turned on my SE/30 after it's been sitting idle
for a few days, and the machine couldn't find the HD (40MB internal).
When I booted up from another system disk, and tried to reinitialize
the HD, the program to do this couldn't find the SCSI port.

I panic, sort of, and call one of my friends at a computer store,
but before she got back to me, I tried turning it on once again (this
would be the 5th time or so after the 1st failure), and VOILA it boots
up perfectly.  Everything is still there, and it's worked perfectly
since then.

I've had the Mac since August.  There was a problem back in January
when the analog board was fried by some bizarre power spike, but that
was replaced, and there have been no problems in the intervening
months.

Any speculations?  Thanks.

Cheng-Jih Chen
(using Paul Shannon's account)


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If you happen to fall off the Sears Tower, go limp, so
people will think you're a dummy and they'll try to catch you,
because, hey, free dummy.