Yeah. I have a Mac SE with a flawless drive too, and
an infailable OS that's never crashed once :-P. The
only reason I said anyting about wearing out an HD was
that the Mac SE manual said to make sure you turned off
the HD if you left the comp on all the time, or it'll
wear out sooner.
That probably means it'd break 1 year sooner of
it's 30 year life span. Lol.
About checking the HD for back blocks, etc, I checked
with the OS 8 CD and with an old copy of Nortan
Utilities that my dad has kept from the PowerMac
6100/66 he had five years ago. Both say the HD is
fine, though nortan did
find a corrupt file. (The file was MacTCP from a
10-year-old Midewest Internet floppy that I used with
my SE, not unexpected) I can't say what's cause the HD
to malfunction on "wake," but I've set it never to let
the HD sleep in the energy saver cp, so I gues it'll
do. :-|
Cheers, and thanx all,
ES
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> From: Chris Tucker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "PCI PowerMacs"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: 7300 HD freeze?
> Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 17:18:02 -0400
>
>At 3:45 PM -0600 8/17/03, Eric Scott wrote:
>>It has the original HD. Small 2 giger, but it's all
I
>>need with this old OS. :) I've turned off the HD
>>sleep,
>>so I shouldn't have any problems. I just don't want
to
>>wear out this old HD while it's all I've got, that's
>>why I didn't before.
>>
>
>I'm using a 250 MB scsi drive as an external to my
5400/200.
>
>This drive was the internal drive for my Mac IIsi, (My
first Mac with
>a color monitor!) which I got 8 years or so ago as a
used machine.
>It's been either the internal or external drive for a
metric crapload
>of Macs since then.
>
>It's outlived two enclosures and is now in a third.
>
>Don't worry too much about wearing out the HD. In
fact, you stress
>the thing more by turning the Mac on and off, than you
do by leaving
>it spinning.
>
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