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From: ramsiri@blake.acs.washington.edu (Enartloc Nhoj)
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Subject: Re: Unrecognized SE/30 drive
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Date: 1 Feb 90 06:55:22 GMT
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In article <18735@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> lnb@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (L. N. Brosnahan) writes:
>In article <6712@columbia.edu> kearns@cs.columbia.edu writes:
>>Hi.  An associate has an SE/30 with the 80meg apple supplied internal
>>hard disk drive.  Unfortunately, it recently just forgot about its
>>hard disk.  when you turn it on, it waits for a user to stick in a
>>floppy.  disk 1st aid does not list the internal hard drive.
>>
>You have one of the infamous hard drives with the sticky lubricant.  This

Forgive me if this problem has already been solved.. i am
new to the mac group.. sifting through over 1000 articles...

Anyway..  i have a Quantum 80S which recently began read and write
fails due to irregular spinning.. symptoms were slow-down.. then
idle a bit.. and maybe come back up to speed.. eventually, i had
to restart several times to get the drive going..  I investigated the
problem and learned of the "sticky" actuator arm fluid.. conditions
precipitating the failure may be humidity or dust.. in my case..
probably both.. my system lives (and so do i) in the basement
of a house built in 1906...  (i could live upstairs.. but my wife
won't let me have my computer in any room she deems liveable...)..
anyway.. i sent my drive off to MacLand.. they promptly put the
new Quantum rom chip on the drive..  been three weeks and my drive
has run flawlessly..  Apparently, lots of dealers have the chip
and it is a very easy install..  if the drive is under warranty 
(2 years for Quantum) , don't let them charge you for a thing...

Anyway.. it cost me $20 to ship it .. they paid return postage..

-kevin
ramsiri@blake.acs.washington.edu