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I would like to thank everybody who responded to my message and offered 
helpful advice.
 
My first question, repairing damaged TIFF files, remained unanswered.  
What surprises me is that the TIFF architecture is obviously designed in 
a way that one or a few bad characters can ruin the whole image.  If a 
few ink spots cover some letters of a printed page, I can still read the 
text.  Similarly, software should be able to read a slightly damaged file.
 
I am using Apple Macintosh computers since the time the first Mac II 
appeared on the market.  It is for sure that they used to be very 
reliable and I know how to operate them and keep them running.  It 
appears that the frequent hard disk crashes and the data loss I described 
are most likely related to the following problems:
 
Kevin.Singer <isingerk@info.curtin.edu.au> writes:
 
Dietmar, your problem with the Q800 sounds almost identical to my
experience. I have an almost identical system [Q800, 24Mb, 1Gb HD, CD,
Apple scanner, PLI removable 88Mb cartridge drive]. Over an extended
period, where each element was checked after repeated failure of the HD and
numerous errors -just as you have described, the following items were
checked / replaced: RAM, HD - reinitialized several times - reloading
original software from scratch each time, different boot hard drives.
Finally the logic board was replaced [under warranty] and the problem
disappeared.
 
 
Stein Roervik <steinr@kjemi.unit.no> writes:
 
This does probably not help you much, but I have a similar disk in my PC,
and recently experienced some serious startup/boot problems. I called a PC
workshop, and the engineer there told that the Seagate ST3xxx series was in
general unreliable. The mechanical design is not good...... 
 
 
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