back ontopic: mac 400k drive.

From: Ward Donald Griffiths III <gram_at_cnct.com>
Date: Tue Jan 27 18:23:25 1998

Tony Duell wrote:

> Another mini-flame for service manuals that claim that some part is 'not
> field repairable'. Sorry, but _I'll_ decide what _I_ can repair. At the
> moment, the only thing I can't rebuild is hard disk HDAs. But I'd much
> rather have a service manual that starts 'Take the HDA into a clean room
> and undo the cover screws (#1 in fig 4.2), lift off cover' etc than one
> which entirely misses out the HDA.

Well, those service manuals were originally meant for their _own_
service technicians, and they knew damned well that no way in Hell
can an entry-level service droid fix those things in the field.
-- 
Ward Griffiths
Dylan:  How many years must some people exist, 
			before they're allowed to be free?
WDG3rd:  If they "must" exist until they're "allowed",
			they'll never be free.
Received on Tue Jan 27 1998 - 18:23:25 GMT

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