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From: peter@suntan.viewlogic.com (Peter Colby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Hard Drive woes
Message-ID: <1991May9.134751.200@viewlogic.com>
Date: 9 May 91 13:47:51 GMT
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In article <1991May2.230817.6784@ncsa.uiuc.edu>, rcook@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Robert Cook) writes:
|> 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?
|> Robert Cook (rcook@ncsa.uiuc.edu)

	I have had the same type of problem... I would power up my mac+ and the
boot sequence would follow through until just before the disks would mount on
the desktop. The machine would then "freeze" with my hard drive sequencing
"tick tick (pause) tick tick (pause) ... " forever. I would hard reset
(you know, the programmer's switch) and the mac would reboot normally and
come up to the finder with no problems.
	I removed one (or more) inits - I don't remember which ones or which
ones I was using at the time - and the problem stopped. The point here is that
yes, an init conflict or problem could cause a cold boot failure but not a
warm boot failure.
	Peter C
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