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From: martya@cpl-mfh.UUCP (Marty Adelman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Apple's flakey 80M drives, a call to arms.
Message-ID: <-537890968@cpl-mfh.UUCP>
Date: 28 Sep 89 14:22:16 GMT
References: <10744@dasys1.UUCP>
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Organization: Clinical Pharmacokinetics Lab, SUNY at Buffalo
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*** In article <10744@dasys1.UUCP>,
*** rpaul@dasys1.UUCP (Rod Paul) writes:
***

>I would be extremely interested to find out how many other people have had
>an Apple 80M drive fail on a IIcx. One month after my warranty ran out I
>also lost a drive. 
>


Well, looks like I've joined the club.  My 80 meg quantum in my SE/30 died
yesterday.  No warning, not even a shudder.  My wife shut the machine off 
to go to lunch and when she came back it would not start.  The drive would
power up but you would get a ?  When I came home from work I played with
it for a while, opened up the case and took the drive out.  Apple has the 
drive mounted upside down (board side up, Seagates are usually the opposite)
I turned the drive over and was able to coax it to start.  When I put the
drive back in the case it refused to work, so I left it out and backed up
all my material (a very fortuitous opportunity).  We worked for a little while
and then hurt a little grinding sound, sounded like a head crash, haven't
been able to get the drive to work since.  I called my local apple dealerr and
spoke to the tech ( a friend of mine), all he could do was bitch about the
quality of Apple stuff lately (seems this is the 3rd or 4th drive this month)
No wonder Apple only gives 90 days on the warranty, they know what there 
quality is worth, maybe I should have known.  By the way the drive was less
hthan 6 months old.   this is the last time I get an Apple hard drive, a number
of years ago I owned a profile (what a mess that was.) 

By the way dealer exchange cost is $395 for th 80 meg, Apples probably making
a good buck on that also.

  Marty Adelman
  sunybcs!cpl-mfh!martya
  cpl-mfh!martya@cs.buffalo.edu