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From: sam@intek01.UUCP (Sam Felton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Dead Mac II's
Summary: try swapping...
Message-ID: <199@intek01.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jun 89 21:06:51 GMT
References: <780008@hpvcfs1.HP.COM>
Organization: Integration Technologies Inc. (Intek), Bellevue WA
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In article <780008@hpvcfs1.HP.COM>, juliem@hpvcfs1.HP.COM (Julie Mixon) writes:
> he recommended was swapping hard discs. We would only like to do this
> as a last resort.  

Why not swap? It is not really a big deal. All you have to do is remove two screws and pop off a couple of connectors.

However, I have had this happen on my mac II at home twice, and in neither case
was there any problem with the hard disk (a Seagate ST-157N MLC-1). Both times
this happened to me, the NCR SCSI chip was at fault and a motherboard swap was
the only way to fix it.

I do suggest trying the hard disk swap yourself to prove that there is no disk
failure, however. Believe me, even for hardware-phobes this is not difficult.

			---Sam---

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