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From: johnsone@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: flaky ?%*(#&%#!! FHDH
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Date: 14 Feb 90 01:39:53 GMT
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Nf-From: uxh.cso.uiuc.edu!johnsone    Feb 13 07:42:00 1990


I know that there has been on-going discussions on the reliability of Apple's
FHDH.  Has anyone found any solutions to the problems?  I seem to be having it
kill about two or three disks a month since I bought it -- had another die this
morning.  I'm getting pretty sick of this.  Has Apple said anything, either
official or unofficial?  Of course, if the stupid thing (SE/30, less than six
months old) was still under warranty I'd bring it in to the dealer.

When I try to erase the disk, it spits it out and gives an "Initialization
Failed" message or something like that.  I've tried using a bit copier (CopyII)
to copy a "good" disk over the bad disk -- the bit copier doesn't have any
qualms about it, but when I insert the disk afterwards, the finder can't find
some of the files and others are "busy/locked" when they shouldn't be.

Is there any solution to this other than throwing the disk away?  (Perhaps
throwing the FHDH away :-)  )

Thanks in advance for the suggestions.


                                     Erik A. Johnson
                                     University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
                                     johnsone@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu