Thanks, your suggestions are all helpful actually because outside of a Mac
repairperson's checklist, feedback like this is as good as any way to
develop a diagnostic process. The drive is now working because of others'
responses that sparked my intuition. I believe the answer lies in the way
Silverlining tells the Mac to address the SCSI bus. Or it was random
Macness.
Yes, it is the original drive as far as I know, and had I not thought of
trying to change the termination of the external Tsunami drive, your post
would have told me so. So you're message wasn't useless. Thing is, I totally
disconnected that drive and tried to start from floppies, 7.6 and 8.0 Disk
Tools, and from same CD-ROMs, but they didn't work. Maybe unplugging the
power supply for 20 minutes did something......all the best......
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carolyn Shere" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "PCI PowerMacs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 3:48 PM
Subject: Re: Internal SCSI on Power Mac 8500/132
> "The purpose to
> this thread is to figure why the 8500/132 isn't mounting any drive."
>
>
> I don't know that I can help you mount the drive, but I will tell you
> a few things that you might consider. I've had the Apple system
> installer tell me it isn't an Apple Drive when the only drive I've
> had (I'm about to buy a new one) is the original drive that came in
> my Apple bought new directly from Apple. I really don't recall what
> happened. I do think I was able to install the software anyway, but
> can't be sure as there was one time when I had to break down and take
> my computer in for repair (it was still under warranty and the hard
> drive and other drives on the SCSI chain were replaced).
>
> Is this your original drive? A second drive? If it's a second or new
> drive, you might want to check SCSI ID number, termination, recheck
> mounting.
>
> Can you borrow an external drive from someone, just to boot up and
> see what's going on software wise (running Norton for example)? I
> fixed someone's computer that booted but couldn't find hard drive by
> connecting my external hard drive and working off that with Norton.
> If you do that, don't forget to make sure there is a system folder on
> the external.
>
> Sorry I can't be any more help than these few suggestions (probably
> all useless).
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