Re: Blinking ? on disk

2001-08-18 Thread Dana Collins
> From: Gregg Eshelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Vintage Macs) > Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 19:55:15 -0700 (PDT) > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Vintage Macs) > Subject: Re: Blinking ? on disk Greg sagely wrote in our last physics lesson:

Re: Blinking ? on disk

2001-08-18 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Alex Allee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 8/18/01 1:19 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Did those HD hum and make seeking noises when > turned on? If not, > > slap hard on sides of the Macs few times asap when > turned on. If > > that trick did work and hear HD spi

Re: Blinking ? on disk

2001-08-18 Thread rlf
>From: Jim Raper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Blinking ? on disk > >Hello, y'all, > >Early season question for the list. I'm the person with the Mac lab of >LCII's, 575's, and 580's. When the teacher whose room houses the lab >went in a few days prior to the opening of school, she and a student >

Re: Blinking ? on disk

2001-08-18 Thread William Ahearn
--- Jim Raper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, y'all, > > Early season question for the list. I'm the person > with the Mac lab of > LCII's, 575's, and 580's. When the teacher whose > room houses the lab > went in a few days prior to the opening of school, > she and a student > turned a few (

Re: Blinking ? on disk

2001-08-18 Thread Alex Allee
on 8/18/01 1:19 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Did those HD hum and make seeking noises when turned on? If not, > slap hard on sides of the Macs few times asap when turned on. If > that trick did work and hear HD spin up and make seeks and boots > fine, replace HDs. That's

Re: Blinking ? on disk

2001-08-18 Thread jpero
> >Hello, y'all, > > > >Early season question for the list. I'm the person with the Mac lab of > >LCII's, 575's, and 580's. When the teacher whose room houses the lab > >went in a few days prior to the opening of school, she and a student > >turned a few (6-8) of the Macs on. All came up with the

Re: Blinking ? on disk

2001-08-18 Thread the pickle
At 19:03 -0500 on 18/08/01, Jim Raper wrote: >Hello, y'all, > >Early season question for the list. I'm the person with the Mac lab of >LCII's, 575's, and 580's. When the teacher whose room houses the lab >went in a few days prior to the opening of school, she and a student >turned a few (6-8) of

Re: Blinking ? on disk

2001-08-18 Thread Marten van de Kraats
This sounds like someone formatting the whole lot of them to get even with the teacher... Try starting up from floppy (disk tools disk) and see wether there is still a system folder with all the goodies inside (or else wether the whole thing is just erased). >Hello, y'all, > >Early season ques