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From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: SE30 40 MB HD problems
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Date: 3 May 89 19:16:42 GMT
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In article <732@island.uu.net> gordon@island.uu.net (Gordon Kio) writes:
>Well, I went to work on my nice, new, SE30 yesterday and low and behold it
>just couldn't find the hard disk. Every time I restarted it or turned it on and
>off, the HD access light would start blinking and then slowly fade away. 
>(Poor thing, it was really trying to find it.) I called a friend and he
>mentioned that discussions on problems with the SE30's 40 meg hard drives
>have been discussed here. One of the things he recalled was that some folks
>encountering the same difficulty found that letting their machine heat up
>helped. I left my machine on all day, checking it intermittently, and after 
>about 15 hours it recovered.

I have an SEx with an 80MB internal drive, and yeah, this happened to me
quite a bit when I first got the machine.  Since I've got 5 Megs RAM in it,
it takes a while to run through the memory check sequence; during the
morning boot-up, after the RAM check finished, the drive would just blink,
unable to find the drive.  I would use the programmer's switch to reboot,
and then it would boot up fine, no problem.  Later restarts or boot-ups
would work fine later in the day.

As the weather has gotten warmer, this seems to have gone away; the SEx
rarely "loses" the drive in the morning.  I put it under the heading of
"minor inconvenience", and let it go at that.

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