[G4] Bad Drives

[Roger Harris]

For this G4 466 the firmware has seemed to have performed a miracle. The 
drive would make a lot of head noise and then get trapped running heads 
together repeatedly. The firmware seems to have cured it. I was very 
suprised. I didn't have a risk on losing this dive as it was gone 
already. I had already pulled everything needed to another Mac and was 
going to put a new drive in for her.

thanks to everyone for the help. At the Apple site I did several 
searches on this problem without any success. I am glad you folk were on 
the ball.

roger

Al Poulin wrote:

>I ran that firmware update on my QuickSilver 733 a couple weeks ago.  It
>went just  fine.  It appears this update relates only to some IBM drives
>INSTALLED ORIGINALLY by Apple.
>
>On another list, there were indications that some folks lost their drives
>entirely as a result of running the update.
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