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From: carlile@trwrba.UUCP (Donald E. Carlile)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: More disks checked..
Message-ID: <1773@trwrba.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 7-Jan-86 14:18:25 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan  7 14:18:25 1986
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Reply-To: carlile@trwrba.UUCP (Donald E. Carlile)
Organization: TRW EDS, Redondo Beach, CA
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(This is for the line eater)

As a person who does Mac support here, I have had a lot of people come to me
with blown disks, though I have never had any personally ( that weren't my own
fault :-).  

I don't have figures, but many of the early ones were due to improper placement
of the external drive.  As you all know, Apple says never put the external on 
the left of the Mac or on top.  

Other than that, I have never been able to figure why some people, and they are
consistent, freequently have problems, and others never have.  I suspect
maybe a cable problem as mentioned in another posting, or more likely magnetics
in the environment and habits.  Florescent desk lamps have a pretty hefty 
magnetic field in the base, and the ImageWriter cover has a magnet on the left
side.

Anybody have other ideas?

Don Carlile
inhp4!trwrb!trwrba!carlile

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