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From: rcook@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Robert Cook)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Hard Drive woes
Message-ID: <1991May2.230817.6784@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
Date: 2 May 91 23:08:17 GMT
Article-I.D.: ncsa.1991May2.230817.6784
Sender: rcook@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Robert Cook)
Organization: Nat'l Ctr for Supercomp App (NCSA) @ University of Illinois
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I'm having a problem with my (NEW) hard drive. When I first boot after being
down for more than about 6 hours, the drive hangs while loading the inits.
The select light stays on until I reset, then everything comes up fine.
At first I thought: ok, init conflict, because it seems to happen while loading
the same init everytime (by noticing which icon's are displayed and which ones
aren't).  But since this only happens when the machine is "cold", I thought
maybe "stiction".  But as someone pointed out to me, stiction went out with
disco, and since I just bought this drive 2 weeks ago this "shouldn't" be
the problem.
So, my question is:  Can there be an init conflict only when a drive is cold
                     and resolve itself after a reset?

Since I can only play with the inits once a day (maybe twice if I stay up real
late), an init conflict may take days or even weeks to figure out. 
Oh, btw, it seems to hang right after Norton directory assistance and before
easy acces and Norton filesaver.

Any help on this is greatly appreciated, and thanks in advance.

System: Classic w/  4MB and Quantum Pro 105 (from APS)
                    various assortment of inits
                           
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