SE/30 with (bad) 40mb disk

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From: Paul Steele
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 1990 14:54

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A few months ago there were a lot of rumors about the 40 MB disk in
the Mac SE/30 having problems due to too much lubrication on the spindle
motor (or something like that).  The fix that I heard about was a ROM
uprade that removed the problems but made the disk very slow.  Do
new Mac SE/30's have this ROM-fixed drive, or has the disk been replaced
with a good working drive?  Also, what is the average access time of
the 40 MB hard disk?  A prof here is planning on getting the SE/30
and is debating on the internal 40 MB disk or an external third party
disk. Any rumors/info would be greatly appreciated.

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From: paul@aucs.uucp (Paul Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: SE/30 with (bad) 40mb disk
Message-ID: <1990Mar15.145401.17551@aucs.uucp>
Date: 15 Mar 90 14:54:01 GMT
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Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia
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