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From: creech@unc.cs.unc.edu (Jeff Creech)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Disapearing Hard Drives on a Mac II
Message-ID: <2115@unc.cs.unc.edu>
Date: Thu, 19-Nov-87 13:13:19 EST
Article-I.D.: unc.2115
Posted: Thu Nov 19 13:13:19 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 22-Nov-87 02:25:37 EST
References: <1155@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Reply-To: creech@unc.UUCP (Jeff Creech)
Organization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Keywords: no hard drive all of a sudden

In article <1155@saturn.ucsc.edu> fiatlux@ucscc.UCSC.EDU (David Vangerov) writes:
>What happens is that some application that you were running has
>managed to die and you were forced to reboot. Instead of getting
>a happy mac and the mac rebooting in less than 7 seconds (WOW!,
>what speed!), you get an icon asking you to insert disk. I don't
>know how the Mac manages to forget about it's internal hard
>drive, but it happens (and damn annoying when it does). Anyways,


I've had the same problem on 4 of our 5 new Mac II's with 80 Meg drives.
(I know I'm a pretty lucky guy.)  I can't get the problem to happen
on any of our older II's, and have not been able to isolate the application(s)
that are causing the problem. I remember seeing some message about outdated
ROMs on the hard disk itself, and I assume that the II's I have have the
new ROMs (with slot manager fixed). Those are my only leads towards a solution.

Who else is seeing this? Maybe Apple can comment if they've seen this
problem. I'm carring a utilities disk around in my pocket at all times.

Thanks for all responses!
Jeff Creech
Macintosh Systems Specialist
Computer Services
UNC-CH Dept. of Computer Science