A friend's ATA66 type of primary hard drive on his S900 failed to
boot and instead booted from the original 2 Gig SCII drive. After
trying quite a few things to get the primary ATA66 drive to boot, or
at least found/recognized, I suggested he bring over his hard drive
to my place and
Hi Barry;
Unfortunately, these old work horses seem to have a tendency for the
connectors (card, cable) to 'get flakey'. This shows up at the most
unhelpful times (case opened, something moved PHYSICALLY. Sometimes a
LOOK can be enough to do the damage.)
The cure, for me anyway, is to take
At 06:15 -0700 06/25/2005, Barry Gamble wrote:
A friend's ATA66 type of primary hard drive on his S900 failed to
boot and instead booted
from the original 2 Gig SCII drive.
It would not boot from mine either.
sadly now my S900 stopped booting at the happy MAC face.
In addition to
on 6/25/05 1:07 PM, Jeff Walther at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
PRAM and NVRAM
What is the practical difference in Non-volatile ram and parameter ram. Can
you zap one and not the other?
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All the Best,
R.A. Cantrell
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Barry,
You really have a weird situation.
Have you tried pressing the interrupt switch (bottom button on front of
s900) after the happy Mac appears. If you get an empty dialog box containing
only a symbol try typing G Finder or G F and then press Return. This may
take you to the Finder safely.
Barry Gamble [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 06:15:01 -0700
Wrote:
A friend's ATA66 type of primary hard drive on his S900 failed to
boot and instead booted from the original 2 Gig SCII drive. After
trying quite a few things to get the primary ATA66 drive to boot, or
at least
