At 2:49 AM +0200 8/17/99, Sidney Ho wrote:
>Absurd it may be, but, as you can see, I'm speculating openly and inviting
>opinions/explanations to better understand the problem. The fact is the
>problem hard drive would boot both a G3-3400 directly and a G3-300 tower (in
>SCSI mode) but not the 2400 (either directly installed or in SCSI mode).
>That is absurd and defies logic. Apple recommends clean installs whenever
>possible, and with OS 8.6 updater this is not possible. Any good
>ideas/explanations why a directory will boot on certain computers and not
>others?
It's possible that a piece of program code used only on the 2400 got
corrupted. However, given how similar the 2400 is to the 3400 and G3-3400
(the major differences are that the G3-3400 has a PPC 750 and a C&T 65554
video chip instead of a 603e and C&T 65550), the G3-3400 should have
crashed too.
Now, if you had done a file backup of that disk, reformatted it, restored
the files, and had the problem disappear, I'd accept that as much better
evidence that it was actually directory damage which caused the problem.
As it is you can't rule out corruption of file *contents*.
Tim Seufert
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