Brian,
If your "original 8.5 gig" drive isn't mounting, disconnect ALL
peripherals, shut down and restart. Run Disk First Aid and see if the
5 GB drive is even shown. If it is, try a few "Repairs".
If not, you need some decent software such as Disk Warrior that can
usually fix such problems, assuming that the drive hasn't decided to
go to drive heaven and is just plain dead. ;)
Patrick Mead-Robins
Mac Solutions
652-1860
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At 2:16 PM -0400 6/17/05, Brian Mahoney wrote:
... ... ...
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.
BM
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