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From: sysop@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Hard Disk Problem?
Message-ID: <151@stech.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 15-Sep-87 07:17:34 EDT
Article-I.D.: stech.151
Posted: Tue Sep 15 07:17:34 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 17-Sep-87 01:13:54 EDT
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Organization: Scholastech, Inc., Waltham, Mass.
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in article <7040@dartvax.UUCP>, boz@dartvax.UUCP (John Boswell) says:
> 
> 
> 	I recently purchased a Rodime 20 Plus hard disk. It seems to work
> fine, and I am very happy with it.  However, the following problem has
> occured:
> 	If I turn on my Mac Plus w/o turning on the harddisk, the screen 
> comes on, but as soon as it is done with its 'memory test" (or whatever),
> instead of getting the expected Mac icon in the center, the screen just
> goes black, and I get nothing.  This is with or w/o a disk in the internal
> or external drive(s).

Question - why are you turning off the hard drive in the first place?  If
you use the computer at least once a day, just leave the hard drive 
running.  That's what's usually recommended, since the power up/power down
sequence is hard on the drive.  Unless you'll not be using it for several
days, you might as well leave it up.  Most hard drives for the Mac draw
very little power. (There are going to be people who will argue with this
philosophy - I'm prepared - so hit me ... :-))

Those games which insist that you boot from them really don't, I've 
discovered.  Just boot from the hard disk, insert the game floppy, and
double click on the game icon.  I've not found one yet that will run in
that way.

Jan Harrington, sysop
Scholastech Telecommunications
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