This one seems to be almost into the "expensive stage". Assuming:
1) The now good master hard drive does have at least a few GB of free
space (if it is actually full or close to it, then problem m ay be
solved, OS-X needs some space on the drive for swap files, if it cannot
find free space, start-up will be slow or not happen). <-- Feel free
to correct the grammar of the sentence beginning ... 'The now good
master hard drive' reads just a bit jarringly odd.
2) The RAM chips are good. Bad RAM will affect things in weird ways.
3) DW is the OS-X version and not the OS-9 version, both 1) and 2)
affect this point with OS-9 being more forgiving than OS-X.
Try pushing the on board re-set switch a few times, followed by (if
this by itself does not work)
Try pulling the on-board battery and leaving it out for a little over a
half hour or so then put it back in. This will really reset things.
(This is a last resort, serious type of thing).
Jerry
On Jul 12, 2005, at 10:45 PM, Robert Klein wrote:
> I took out the good drive, found a label that illustrated how to set
> the
> jumpers for slave, master, etc., so I changed it to Master. I
> reinstalled
> it, started up with Disk Warrior and, behold, it came up as a master.
> I ran
> a diagnostic on it and it was fine.
>
> Now, I still have all of the exact same problems as before. I reset
> the
> PRAM and NVRAM again per instructions on the Apple support pages. I
> double-checked the Software Install and Tiger disks on another
> computer to
> make sure they were OK (they were).
>
> I took Mike's suggestion and did an option-startup. A blue screen
> came up
> with a 270-degree arrow in one box on the left and a straight arrow in
> a box
> on the right side. When I clicked on the left one, it appeared to
> make the
> optical drive run. The other button did nothing. Only when I
> inserted the
> DW CD did a disk icon come up (in the middle) and it was called
> "utility
> disk". Now, I'm thinking, I am stuck with the "expensive option."
>
> I have an external firewire drive that I use for backups. I can't
> find a
> way to make it a bootable drive without cloning it (and losing my other
> data) via SuperDuper!, for example. I looked all over the Apple
> discussion
> boards, versiontracker, etc.
>
> This is a real puzzle.
>
> R
>
>
> On 7/12/05 5:15 PM, "macgroup-digest"
> <owner-macgroup-digest at erdos.math.louisville.edu> emailed:
>
>> There is probably a jumper on the drive itself that has to be changed
>> from the slave to the master position. The system won't work right
>> with a slave drive and no master drive on the IDE ribbon.
>
>
>
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