Hello,
I've recently signed up for this list and I've been watching some
interesting upgrade discussions. Now I've got a question that I'm
hopeful you gurus can answer. I recently purchased a used 12X CD on
eBay and was told by the seller the drive was in good operating
condition. Well, I received the drive a couple days ago and
subsequently installed it at SCSI#3 with the same configuration and
cable hookups as the 4X drive I had removed. Note the 4X drive was my
7500's original drive. When I powered the 7500 back on and checked
Apple System Profiler, the 12X drive was not found on the SCSI chain and
simply pushing the button to eject the disk tray resulted in nothing.
The drive appeared to be receiving no power. Needless to say, I quit
for the night.
Tonight, I decided I'd reinstall the 4X CD to determine whether I had a
bad 12X drive because that was the conclusion of a local Mac tech and
one of the columnists for LowendMac. Much to my surprise, the same
thing happened to the 4X drive after I reinstalled it. The disk tray
would not eject and System Profiler couldn't find it. As far as I know
this drive was working only a day ago. Anyway, I'm stumped and look
forward to hearing whatever helpful suggestions any of you may have.
Sincerely,
Mark
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