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From: roy@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (John M.A. Roy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Dead Mac II's
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Date: 6 Jun 89 22:29:12 GMT
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In-reply-to: juliem@hpvcfs1.HP.COM (Julie Mixon)

In article <780008@hpvcfs1.HP.COM>, juliem@hpvcfs1 (Julie Mixon) writes:
|We have been having some problems with our Mac II's recognizing their
|hard disc's. We have two dead at the moment and one has been flaky              for quite some time. Our machines are Mac II's with one internal floppy

|Any other ideas or solutions? Or have you also had this problem?

I had the same problem a couple of months ago.  I just got the bloody thing
to spin up, get recognized, AND have not turned it off since.  I use the
Apple HD initializer to get it to recognize the HD, then canceled out of 
the initialization process.

I'm hoping that running it for a while (6 months or so) will either burn past
the built up oil or Quantum will recall them (I'm not holding my breath
though :-).

Good Luck,

John M.A. Roy (714) 856-5039
ICS Dept., Univ. Calif., Irvine CA 92714
Internet: roy@ics.uci.edu