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From: kevin@crash.cts.com (Kevin Hill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: New SE/30 problem
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.190029.15443@crash.cts.com>
Date: 6 Jun 91 19:00:29 GMT
References: <676094904.5@blkcat.FidoNet> <1991Jun5.150350.21814@eng.umd.edu>
Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA
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In <1991Jun5.150350.21814@eng.umd.edu> russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes:

>In article <676094904.5@blkcat.FidoNet> Bill.Whitacre@p916.f421.n109.z1.FidoNet.Org (Bill Whitacre) writes:
>>I sure could use some help with a perplexing problem.
>>

>>
>>Turning on the machines out of the box we got the question mark'd disk instead of booting from the internal HD.  After booting from a floppy and having it recognize the HD it would boot from it upon restart.  Then, in unpredictable places while running va
>>rious s/ware the machine would hang with various errors from 'out of memory' to 'bus error' to plain old 'system error'.  Sometimes they won't recognize a floppy that's shoved in, sometimes they will.
>>
>>It's all very strange and quite disturbing.  I have never had a problem with getting a Mac out of the box and having it fire up just fine.

>In the wild guess arena-- Is the RAM the proper speed rating for the SE/30
>(I think 120ns is required, but it could be 100ns)


  The Mac SE/30 does require 100ns roms...        You might want to check that
out!  Hope this is of help.