i boot from a diskette, and do a norton disk check
on it. guess what, bad sectors. man.
how do you fix that ? do you have to replace the disk ?

now all my larger stuffit archive is kindof corrupt.
and i can only unstuff small files correctly.

and guess what, my keyboard is 5ucked too.
it started jamming, and typing by itself.
the only way to fix it is to give it a wack.

how do you fix this kind of thing ?
totally replace them ?

i gave the 580 as a present for my little bro allready.

is that the cause ?

*as long as you have a full '040 and at least 48 MB of RAM. You'll also need an ethernet card, to copy it over to a G3 or G4 based Mac to compress the movie properly. Ah well, still gives you craploads of room, and it makes a great server to all your unlucky non-IDE 68ks!

2. Sometimes, keyboards just go weird. You have two choices:

a) Replace the keyboard
b) Open it up and attempt to fix it

If you choose b, grab a phillips screwdriver and undo all the screws that hold the keyboard case together. Put the keyboard back upright. Take off the top bezel, and if you have the Apple Keyboard II, be careful with the power button, as there is a spring under it, and if you're not careful, it will have sprung, and you will not know where it sprung to. Clean out all the dust and crap there. Possibly take off the keys if you need to, and see if there's anything under there that shouldn't be. Then put it all back together, and hopefully everything will be ok. However, before you do this, you may want to purchase an extra keyboard, just in case something borks up.

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Physical abuse is another, obvious cause. Banging, dropping, etc. are all no-nos. Even rapid motion during writes can produce bad effects -- the deflection of the head from its ideal position can result in marginal writes that are hard to read later. It's best not to do disk activity when in motion.

Bad sectors can also be produced by aging or corrosion. Drives are not hermetically sealed; they "breathe" to a certain extent. If the atmosphere is very humid or corrosive (e.g., as is salt air near the ocean), the disks will degrade over time. A little known source of trouble is operation at low pressure (high altitudes). Disk heads "fly" above the platter surface with a separation measured in fractions of a wavelength of light! That critical distance is a function of air pressure (remember, aerodynamics are involved), so if you run drives in Denver, the flying height is lower than at Death Valley. Smaller flying height means more sensitivity to dust, platter roughness, etc.

If there is any physical damage to the platter, the drive can get very bad very quickly, as particles thrown up act as boulders and sandpaper for the creation of still more defects. That cascade causes the well-known crash, accompanied by squealing sounds and a total loss of data.

If the damage isn't too bad, you may be able to fix things by reformatting, which marks bad sectors to avoid their being used for data storage. But if the defects are not stable in number, then this trick will only work temporarily.

i want to keep my lil bro happy.

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i guess the quick cycle must've cause the bad sectors in my LC 580.

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