> Thanks for the tips crew. I'll give those links a shot, Patrick. Right
> now it seems that the main drive, the original 8.5 gig, isn't being seen
> by the computer. My second drive, an IDE is fine and after a long delay
> and pressing the option key, I get it to boot to 8.5 which I just
> installed to it after I booted with an 8.5 cd and installed that os on
> the ide drive. (Did I lose anyone? :)
>
> So I guess it is the SCSI drive that's the problem. I had my scsi
> scanner hooked up when the problem started so maybe something in the
> chain is amiss. I'll reseat the cards and see what happens. Right now I
> forget whether it's onboard scsi or a card. If it's onboard then I'm
> screwed as far as regaining anything from the scsi drive. Would 8.5 even
> be able to see the 9.1/9.1/10.2 drive anyway? Funny thing though,
> yesterday the thing kept restarting itself in one of the boot attempts,
> happy face, reboot, happy face, reboot. Maybe that was the drive's way
> of saying goodbye!!
> Thanks again and I will post the results if I have success in anything.
<shudder> Sounds like you have SCSI termination issues. Good luck! I
doubt you have to reseat the card(s) (huh, SCSI cards?... the Beige G3
has in-built SCSI). Try plugging in the scanner again. And, make sure
that ALL your SCSI hardware that is connected to the computer is
turned on BEFORE you turn on your computer! Also, make sure you don't
have any cables hanging off the chain that don't have a device
attached. SCSI is finnicky!!!
Eric.
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