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From: keir@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Rick Keir, MACC)
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Subject: Re: strange happenings...
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Date: 23 Feb 90 23:11:07 GMT
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In article <4062@hub.UUCP>, nichols@apricot.ucsb.edu (Timothy C. Nichols;;;;Graduate;900630;;aaecg-9nichols@apricot.ucsb.edu (Timothy C. Nichols;;;;Graduate writes...

>The SE/30 has been doing some weird things lately.  File and folder
>names
>keep getting renamed '..............' or any combination of dots.

This sounds very much like a problem from the first days of the 
Mac Plus & the HD SC Setup program.  Try updating the drivers
by using the HD SC Setup that ships with System 6.0.3 (it's
version 2.0), or with System 6.0.4 (I don't have a copy handy,
but I think it is the same as in 6.0.3).  

We saw about a dozen Macs here with this problem when the 
bug first was reported.  Apple sent out 2 fixes in quick
succession to their SCSI software, and that ended it.
Don't ask me why a bad SCSI driver would do this...
but having worked with computers for a decade, it doesn't 
surprise me in the least.