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In article <1990Mar6.071312.25729@chinet.chi.il.us> magik@chinet.chi.il.us (Ben Liberman) writes:
>In article <Mar.4.20.01.43.1990.15845@galaxy.rutgers.edu> 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
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