Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac:49941 comp.sys.mac.hardware:2051 comp.sys.mac.programmer:12926 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!shelby!portia!thewho From: thewho@portia.Stanford.EDU (Derek Fong) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Everyone with an FDHD drive Message-ID: <9823@portia.Stanford.EDU> Date: 6 Mar 90 09:48:27 GMT References: <1990Mar6.071312.25729@chinet.chi.il.us> Sender: Derek Fong Reply-To: thewho@portia.Stanford.EDU (Derek Fong) Followup-To: comp.sys.mac Organization: Stanford University Lines: 40 In article <1990Mar6.071312.25729@chinet.chi.il.us> magik@chinet.chi.il.us (Ben Liberman) writes: >In article perez@andromeda.rutgers.edu.rutgers.edu (William Perez) writes: >> >>3 months ago, I purchased an SE/30 with an FDHD drive (reads High Density >>disks-those with the HD letters near the shutter). Since then, I've >>heard MANY complaints about the drive. Most common is having disks >>fail and never format again. >> >I bought an SE/30 in Jan. of 1989 and started having problems with the FDHD >and Sony disks. After having 2 HD and 4 DD disks fail, I went out and bought >a head cleaning disk at my local EggHead computer store. I now clean my >drive every few months and haven't had a single DD failure since. >(your milage may vary ;-) Hooray, another "first batch" SE/30 user! What does this cleaning disk you have do? Do you need to use a fluid with it or what? I also, as my comment notes, have had an SE/30 since Jan 1989. I have had quite a few DD die on me (10/200 disks I've purchased). They are Verbatim's (not ranked as high as Sony's, but I got them really cheap). I had two HD's die on me (out of maybe 30-40). I resurrected one, by reformatting it on my friend's (gasp!) 386 PC. then reformatted it on mine. I remember one person once posted that he solved his bad floppy problem by zapping the bad disks with a giant Electomagnet in the Physics lab. In any case, I think it would be great if Apple would do something to correct the problem, although I do suspect that it is not an easy one to solve cons- dering the problems IBM had with their first High Density drives. ...In any case, I have another question to toss out in regards to the SE/30. I heard from an unidentifyable source that the system board for the SE/30 has changed 3 times since the first ones were shipped out in Jan 1989. Is there any validity to this claim? If so, were any drastic changes made? Oh well, I haven't had any problems yet with mine.... ----Derek Fong fong@cive.stanford.edu thewho@portia.stanford.edu