Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!orsvax1!pyrnj!caip!topaz!lll-crg!lll-lcc!ucdavis!ucbvax!decvax!ittatc!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcc6!sdcc3!borton From: borton@sdcc3.UUCP (Chris Borton) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Interesting flakey disk Message-ID: <3240@sdcc3.UUCP> Date: Tue, 22-Apr-86 00:13:32 EST Article-I.D.: sdcc3.3240 Posted: Tue Apr 22 00:13:32 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Apr-86 05:24:09 EST Organization: U.C. San Diego, Academic Computer Center Lines: 25 Keywords: disk flakey hang This is an interesting case. I had a normal 400K disk with source code examples on it. Sometime in the last month (unknown how or when) it undertook that tumultuous route that brings a disk to one small step beyond flakey and one large step beyond usable. Setup: 400K floppy drive. 128K ROMs. Startup disk: HD20. System 3.1.1. Finder 5.2. The symptoms now are: stick disk in, whir, whir, whir-in-the-same-pattern... It must get past the volume mount, but then has a problem reading something and sits there trying to read it. Forever. No error messages. If I to Macsbug, the drive stays on. Same speed, forever. {G,ES} back to Finder, and it's hang time! Anyone know what it's trying to read, and why it doesn't give an error after awhile? Seems like some sort of bug, since I can't even stick it in to initialize it! Many thanks and a brownie button to the person who answers this! -Chris -- Chris Borton, UC San Diego Undergraduate CS; Micro Consultant, UCSD borton@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU || ...!{ucbvax,decvax,noscvax,ihnp4,bang}!sdcsvax!borton