I'm now stuck with a OS X installer CD as the only device the Lombard will start up from, the HD has disappeared altogheter from the installer and disk utility options and is quite hot, which indicates some weird activity inside. The question now is: how do I force a shut down in order to pull out the HD? The computer won't start from any other bootable system I have on CD and won't start from external FireWire and SCSI either, it only accepts an OS X install CD and I can't find any option to shut down from it.
I just summarise the background events for those who were following the thread and gave suggestions and anybody who could recognise some pathology: - Hitachi Travelstar 40GNX 40GB in a Lombard makes continuous seek-click noise when booted in the freshly installed OS X Panther partition. Normal behaviour when booted in the OS 9 partition. Disc usage is less than 10% -> no fragmentation issues, specially in the OS X partition (just clean installed). Additional software was installed. I replicated the same setup that was previously running under Jaguar. - tried to wipe the OS X partition and installed Jaguar on it. Normal behaviour, no clicking noise, HD runs cool and fine. - tried to install Panther in the OS 9 partition (no additional software installations): normal HD behaviour, runs cool, no noise - cloned the original Panther setup back onto the wiped OS X partition: clicking noise is back - wiped the OS partition again (disk utility) in order to re-install freashly Panther hoping I would get through fine. Freeze, force restart: HD does not mount and is quite hot. Don't know how to shut downn. The reason why I tried out all of the above is that I wanted to find out (or rule out) that the problem would come from some weird combination of software and/or OS settings, which I'm sort of convinced it is the case. By the way, the HD is still covered by warranty, I just did not want to return the HD in the case the problem were somehow software/OS related. thanks for any help! cheers, gianfranco -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
