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From: Philip Stortz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 00:11:18 -0600
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: LC 580 hard drive doesn't appear
>first, check the cables,
> <snip>
>if they won't show up in the formatter, try scsi probe
IIRC the 580 uses an IDE drive and SCSI Probe won't be of any use.
You could try the latest version of 'Mt. Everything' (v1.5.3?)
which will work for ATA on the internal bus.
>but like i said reinstalling the
>driver on the drive usually works. norton and the other various
>utilities can't really do anything with a drive that won't mount.
>l s wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>> I am a teacher in a small school and have a number
>> of different Macs in my room. When I went to set
>> things up this fall, the two LC 580s did not operate
>> properly. I get the question mark in the disk at
>> start up. I inserted a CD to start up to see what
My experience with the older ATA drives in these lowend machines is that
they are not very durable and it's quite possible that they are simply dead
from "sticktion" after the period of un-use
Aloha, Ken
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