on 8/5/01 10:47 PM, roland drake at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear List: > > A few days ago I purchased a 4GB Barracuda internal hard drive for a > friend's PowerMac 8500. The hard drive proved to be defective because it > refused to mount after repeated attempts to do so. I took the drive back to > the store and exchanged it for another drive. > I installed this drive and initialised it using Drive Setup. The drive > initialised perfectly. > > I installed a fresh operating system and then the necessary software. > Everything seemed to be fine. Then, a couple of days later, I went back to > my friend's place to do some other things to his computer. When I tried to > wake it from SLEEP, it refused to do so. Finally, when I did get it up and > running, I was greeted with a flashing question mark on the screen, > indicating that the computer could not locate a proper disk from which to > boot. So, I booted the computer with a boot CD, but the hard drive was no > where to be seen on the desktop. > > I brought the computer back to my place, opened it up, and checked the > connections to the hard drive. I restarted the computer without incident. > But I was suspicious, and so I put the computer through a series of SHUTDOWN > and SLEEP runs. On one occasion after waking from SLEEP, I got an unusual > message stating that, "some files may have been lost". Eventually, on one of > these runs, the flashing question mark returned. > > Now, I'm left to wonder. Is there something wrong with the hard drives > themselves? Or, is it an indication of other things running amuck inside my > friend's 8500? > > Roland :) > > > I had very much the same problem on my 8500 when using os9. I reinstalled os 8.6 and have had no problems.
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