Peter wrote: >Actually, it is all UATA cards and all PCI Macs ... but the 7300 appears to >be affected more than the others. > >The card is not being registered properly at restart time. > >One way to force this is to make an emergency boot floppy, one which contains >a valid system file and a valid finder file ... not necessarily for the 7300 >... I usually use MacOS 7.5.3 ... and then try to boot from that emergency >floppy. > >The boot floppy will be rejected because it isn't for the 7300, and the MacOS >will tell you to restart the machine. > >When you press restart, the floppy will be ejected, the machine will go into >restart, and when it comes back the UATA card will be properly registered. > >If not, then the UATA card probably isn't properly seated. > >I believe the PRAM is getting confused, but simply clearing the PRAM won't >fix the problem ... you must successively boot from another drive, preferably >the floppy, to get out of this problem.
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