>Hi friends,
>
>(he said on bended knee :-(
>A friend gave me a good Micropolis 4 GB drive yesterday
>to put into my 9500/200 along with my Seagate 2 GB.
>
>I was pretty sure, based on a couple of websites, that the ID was 4
>and so I gambled and installed the Micropolis without unplugging my
>existing drive - big mistake as it seems I've jumbled the bus but good!
>
>My Seagate was on the end of the ribbon cable and this new Micropolis
>above it.
>The screen showed the question mark but then went a blank grey.
>I got an OS 9 CD to boot and opened Drive Setup.
>BOTH DRIVES WERE - ID '0' - but only the Micropolis was active.
>The Seagate showed <NOT MOUNTED>.
>
>I removed the Micropolis and tried just my main Seagate - twice the
>computer started to boot and the drive light showed action and it spun,
>but then froze on the OS 9.1 screen plate.
>
>Tried a couple of pram Zaps and unplugged and pushed the CUDA for 5 secs too.
>Couldn't boot from my Disk Warrior or TechTool Pro CD's - only from
>my OS 9 CD.
>
>A couple of failed CD boot attempts later (Seagate removed) I was prompted
>by Drive Setup, that the disk (Micropolis) was unreadable and would I like
>to initialize.
>I chose O.K. but after waiting on the spinning beachball for two hours,
>during
>what appeared to be the drive initialization, I shut the 9500 down and
>"crashed" myself - with a very worried mind.
>
>I have left it unplugged with the battery out for the last 9 hours.
>I'm using the Centris 660AV for now.
>
>For "Classic Blunders Ltd.",
>
>Terry
Dupe scsi id's shouldn't damage the drives - I've made the same
mistake on a few occasions - yesterday springs to mind when I installed
an Ultraplex 40x CD Rom in my Umax and changed the id of my zip to the
same as an IBM 9LP on the same chain. IBM failed to mount but no damage
was done though the computer was 'strange' for a little while as the
chain sorted itself out - after I'd corrected the id's the 9LP still
would not mount and was described as 'not ready' so I used HD SpeedTools
to mount it. So I rechecked all the connections and zapped the pram,
rebuilt the desktop and everything was fine again. Was the Micropolis
terminated when the only drive? Have you got any other HD utilities?
Pete
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