🚀 go-pugleaf

pss4@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Paul S Shannon) writes:


>Hi, I'm wondering if anyone can tell me what might have happened.

>Early this week, I turned on my SE/30 after it's been sitting idle
>for a few days, and the machine couldn't find the HD (40MB internal).
>When I booted up from another system disk, and tried to reinitialize
>the HD, the program to do this couldn't find the SCSI port.
                                                       ^^^^ 
   >----------------> I think that you mean the SCSI device. 

>I panic, sort of, and call one of my friends at a computer store,
>but before she got back to me, I tried turning it on once again (this
>would be the 5th time or so after the 1st failure), and VOILA it boots
>up perfectly.  Everything is still there, and it's worked perfectly
>since then.

   I think that you have the infamous sticking drive problem!  Apple 
   has a somewhat questionable fix for this.  This problem is caused 
   by lubricant in the drive which doesn't lubricate well.  This is a 
   real problem if the drive sits for a long period of time unused 
   (long time = several days). 

   This happened here and taking a rubber mallot to it sometimes helps 
   BUT THIS IS *NOT* RECOMMENDED.  You can also twist the Mac (or remove 
   the drive and twist it) in a somewhat violent motion in the direction 
   that the drive spins.  This was enough to unstick a drive here.  

   And remember.  This is a VERY good time to do backups!!! 

hoepfner@heasfs.gsfc.nasa.gov 
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center