Well I only had experience with one. I booted up the computer in the science room, tried it out, and it worked fine. There was a lot of junk strewn around, so I wanted to get a clean start. I tried reformatting it and reinstalling the system software. The reformat failed, and it made the drive die.
I'm not saying all Miniscribes are terrible, I'm just saying that the one that I used (and which probably hadn't been used in a couple of years) was bad. On Wednesday, July 24, 2002, at 08:05 PM, J.S. Garrison wrote: > > > ---------- >> From: Bill Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Compact Macs) >> Subject: Re: Some questions about an accelerated SE >> Date: Tue, Jul 23, 2002, 6:11 PM >> > >> Yo compacters everywhere, >> >> To this dated thread, the -p said about the reliability of old hard >> drives: >> >>> ...the 20MB Miniscribes in the SEs were far and away the worst. The > > I posted on this theory some many weeks ago. I don't know how the idea > that > these drives are bad came to be. > > I picked up twenty SEs a few months back, from an elemetary school here > in > town. All but 5 survived sitting in a parking lot for three months. All > but > 6 of the Miniscribe 20MB hard drives worked. Some were sold, and there > are > still 7 on my back porch. All these, including the few sold, STILL have > working Miniscribe 20 hard drives. I've owned dozens in the past whose > failure rate is well under 20 percent. > > The statement that these drives are bad just doesn't hold water. > > Jeff > > -- > Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. > > Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > > Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> > The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> > --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; > Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> > > Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com > -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
