30 Apr
1998
30 Apr
'98
1:22 p.m.
The speakers MIGHT be the problem. There is a pair of them, each
twice the size of an IMSAI, right beneath the macintosh
to
I posted this a few weeks back, but noone answered, so I'll ask it
again.
Oh, what the heck, I'll make a few guesses...
There is a certain Macintosh 5400/180 at my
school whose hard drive
crashed about a month and a half ago. When it tried to start, it
wouldn't really seek, just made a ticking noise and the LED would
Is the disk spinning at this point? (feel the drive itself). Is it just
that the positioner is not geting the heads where they should be?
flash. So, we took it out, ordered another one. A
few days later,
it died the same death. So now we have another one. My ethics don't
allow me to just put in a hard drive knowing it will be destroyed.
What should I do? One hint is that the Macintosh is in a soundproof
booth, and is powered from the booth, which is plugged in. But, the
mac is plugged in via a "surge protector".
Ideas? Could it be bad power? Any way to check?
It _could_ be a PSU problem, but IMHO it's unlikely, unless other parts
of the mac are failing as well. If the disk is spinning and the rest of
the mac is OK, I'd not suspect power problems at this time.
Are there any strong magnetic fields (say _large_ speakers) very close it? I'm wondering if the servo information on the
disks is being
corrupted so the positioner can't lock onto a track.
-tony
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