Firstly, you should be able to connect an external SCSI CD ROM drive (connected via the external HDI30 connector), put a system CD into it and boot from it by holding the C key down. This is always the best way to deal with problems of this sort. If you don�t have an external SCSI CD-ROM drive, you should be able to get one from eBay pretty easily, or I might have one I can send you for the cost of the postage (or where are you located - email me offline). If you want to keep on using your PB145 it�s a very worthwhile thing to have.
The internal drive in a PowerBook is a 2.5� model and I cannot recall how you would connect it to a desktop Mac with a 3.5� SCSI interface. Easier to fix it in situ using the approach I suggest above. Nick -- Nick Collingridge - Zapp Computer Consultancy From: Alasdair Hepburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Mac UK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 01:00:05 +0000 To: "Mac UK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: "Missing" Hard Disk >Have you tried updating to this system version, or booting from a >MacOS 7.6.1 System CD, then updating drivers using the latest >version of HD SC Setup. Either might fix the problem. Indeed it might, if the HD would even show up. HD SC Setup doesn't even want to recognise the drive at all. As for CD, I think that would need me to AppleTalk the PB with my Centris 610 (which has a CD drive), share the CD and hope that the minimum system that boots from a floppy is prepared to see the CD on the network. This may be worth trying too. > >Essentially it sounds to me like a disk driver problem, or possibly (but >less likely) a problem with the SCSI controller on the drive. If it is a driver issue, due perhaps to corruption at the start of the disk, do I then need to pull the disk and try it in another machine? The cable seemed to have fewer pins than standard SCSI, but I could be mistaken, as it's a while since I opened up the Centris. -- Mac UK is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac UK list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-uk.shtml> --> 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/mac-uk%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
