Dr. M. Burek writes: >OK. Here's what I've tried so far: > >Switching the drives on the SCSI chain >switching SCSI ID's on both drives (finally figured out Quantum's scheme) >tried installing just the Quantum drive > >Nothing I've done so far has enabled the Quantum drive to mount on >startup. I did manage to get the Quantum to mount by itself through >Drive Setup again (had to be on SCSI ID 0), and tried to install OS 9 on >this drive. OS 9 installed OK at the time, but after a reboot, >nothing... the firmware just went to the CD-ROM, as it didn't find a >startup disk (or so it thought). > >So... unless anyone has an idea, I'm gonna trade this thing in for a >drive that works. >
Could be that the Quantum drive's track 0, 1 which stores the driver and the directory is no longer magnetically as active as when it was new so reinstalling to it may not hold data needed to boot from. Try this salvage trick: under Drive Setup create 2 partitions, a smaller 1st partition (say 400-500 MB) and a larger 2nd partition. Select "unallocated" for the first partition but initialize the 2nd as Mac OS Standard. Reinstall your OS to see if it boots. If it won't then get another drive, preferably a Seagate (I've found Seagates to have lasted the longest among my drives). Charlie -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
