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From: allon@eng.umd.edu (Allon Stern)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: It keeps seeking, and seeking, and seeking ....
Keywords: Hard disk, dies, etc...
Message-ID: <1990Mar11.211449.6833@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 11 Mar 90 21:14:49 GMT
Sender: allon@bagend.eng.umd.edu
Organization: Maryversity of Uniland, College Park
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Lately, my hard disk (at home -- I'm living on campus, but my parents keep
calling me about this) on my Mac II has been mucking up...Occasionally,
when you run a program, or do some disk i/o, the HD just sits there seeking
(you can hear it).  When trying to boot, it will do the same -- it gives
the happy mac, then just sits there seeking.  Rebuilding the desktop
fixes the problem, but then it occurs again.  Is this a symptom of some
virus, or is my HD just going senile?  It shouldn't be going bad, since
I've only had the machine for about a year or so, and it isn't used every
day (it does get shut off between uses).  Thanks.  Please reply via
e-mail, since I usually don't have time to read news, though I'd love to.
I'll try to stay current, but usually I have a few hundred messages to
catch up on.
                             - -= Allon =- -

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