>>>>>
>Finally, after testing with other disks, and mounting the suspect
>disks on other Macs I found that none of the disks were bad at all. The
>SCSI controller on the motherboard had gone bad! It would read disks
>very very slowly, in little spurts, but the spurts were getting fewer
>and farther between. It never gave any errors and never timed out. Have
>you got another machine with which you can test the disk?
>
>
>Kris Feldmann
The original disk and an eBay, (assumed OK) disk both respond the
same, so I think it's probably the controller or thereabouts.
Dang!
>Thus wrote [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> > Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 03:12:57 -0800
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Duo/2400 List)
> > Subject: [Duo2400] Re: Won't initialize HD?
> >
> > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 8/11/01 7:09 AM wrote:
> > >
> > > > I thought it was the HD but a second HD returns the same error, when
> > > > I try to format them with FWB or similar programs, (from in the dock).
> > > > Trying to format one is extremely slow as well.
> > > >
> > > > What daya think? motherboard?
> > > >
> > >
> > >This is a wild shot but I had a problem with initializing a hard drive and
> > >installing the OS not too long ago. Turns out it had some bad
>RAM. I swapped
> > >out the memory module and it was business as usual. This was on a PB5300
> > >though (which is PPC & IDE) but memory problems can do weird things.
> > >
> > >Perhaps after the jolt the memory has become slightly unseated. Try
> > >reseating it or even removing it temporarily (although OS8 on up
>won't run o
> > >the 4MB onboard).
> > >
> > >Just a shot.
> > >
> > >-makmac
> >
> >
> > Dismantled all but didn't work. thanks anyway.
> >
> > Functions ok without HD in dock, but with HD takes 10 minutes to show
> > the lil mac with a very, very, slowly blinking, question mark.
> >
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