I gathered the below quote from a tech bulletin on Silverlining. No one is
responding except Mr. Clark and one off-list helper, but I'm going to keep
this thread up in hopes someone has the time and can put aside competitive
ego for a moment to hazard appearing less than "all that" for the purposes
of something other than self aggrandizement...... ha. ha. The purpose to
this thread is to figure why the 8500/132 isn't mounting any drive. I
received this from an off-lease reseller and it came from the IEEE at
Rutgers (electrical engineer's group). I figure there's no posts because of
the holiday or because no one has a clue. I certainly don't. (original post
in full quoted below) Here's what I found:
"Any hard disk drive attached to the SCSI bus must be partitioned and
formatted and contain its own driver program. When the Macintosh starts up
it issues a SCSI reset command and polls the SCSI bus for the devices to
respond. For a responding hard disk the Macintosh loads its driver
program(s) into system memory. All subsequent communication between the hard
drive(s) and the Macintosh is done through that driver."
So I formatted and partitioned the hard drive with Silverlining. A Quantum
Fireball 1.2 GB drive which the seller says had the MacOS 8.5 driver
installed. However, when I went to do a clean install of 8.5, it wouldn't
update the driver, saying it wasn't an Apple driver. Which is why I
reformatted to begin with using Silverlining. Drive Setup also wouldn't
initialize the drive, again, so I used Silverlining. Does this help?
This makes me wonder whether
----- Original Message -----
From: "jrclark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "PCI PowerMacs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 12:25 AM
Subject: Re: Internal SCSI on Power Mac 8500/132
>
> My knowledge is quite limited but i would try everything
> i could think of.
> Boot with Command-Option-shift-P-R
> Zap Pram,press and hold CUDA swich about 20 sec.
> Check cables unplug and reseat connectors.
> See if can hear HD spin.
> Unplug cdrom.
> unplug floppy.
----- Original Message -----
To: "PCI PowerMacs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 4:59 PM
Subject: Internal SCSI on Power Mac 8500/132
> Horns of a dilemma, Part I.
>
> Wanted a fresh 8500/132, so I formatted the internal
> 1.2 GB Quantum Fireball hard drive with Silverlining
> 5.x.x (the Apple Setup didn't want to do the
> intialization.....). Everything went fine so I
> partitioned the drive into two equal parts Apple I and
> Apple II. MacOS 8.5-->8.6 onto I and 7.6-7.6.1 onto
> II. Still fine. Shutdown to restart later. When I did,
> the 8500/132 froze up immediately and I have no access
> via the CD-ROM, external SCSI or floppy drive. It just
> won't start-up properly even though it sounds the
> resonant chord, displays a gray screen and arrow. It
> doesn't git to the Happy Mac.
>
> What happened? Does this have anything to do with the
> kind of internal SCSI bus the 8500/132 has? Was
> Silverlining incompatible and of course, WHAT IN
> MINERVA AM I SUPPOSED TO DO NOW!?
>
> I thought I thunk I saw this thing had been formatted
> by an FWB utility and I saw "hammerhead" somewhere in
> the TechTool report during the check-out run of that
> utility. Everything seemed fine. May have broke
> something that didn't need fixed. Just wanted it
> fresh.......would appreciate mega-feedback so I can
> resolve this soon.
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