On Wednesday, September 11, 2002, at 04:31 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> SORRY IN ADVANCE FOR A LONG POST............. > hi all and thanks for the great input about my dying > pb100. to clarify, i have gotten it to successfully > boot using an ext. floppy in the past, but using every > SCSI tool i could get my hands on (silverlining, apple > hd sc setup, scsi probe, etc), all i could see was the > firmware (a conner 20M). the drive would spin up and > click audibly, but not in the normal fashion. instead > of rapid short clicking, it would do something like > this: > _CLICK_ CLICK CLIck CLick Click click click click click > click click click. (loud at first then gradually fading > out, about a dozen clicks total. then it would pause > for a sec and try again, a few times before giving up) That is a bad, BAD noise for a HDD to make. > BUT IT GETS BETTER!!! I recently went overseas to > Korea, which uses the 220V standard (i live in USA) > that the pb100 power supply supports (because as 100 > users should know the lifetime of a leadacid battery is > terrible). I brought the pb100 along just for fun, as i > had some b&w games on a floppy. > Lo and behold, when i plug it in and press any key, the > startup disk is given back to me and the pb boots into > sys 7! (i was using 6.0.8L on a floppy for its mini > footprint). the HD was somehow revitalized!!! Yep, same thing happened on my 540 just before the HDD died the death. Sufficient jostling about might get the drive to work again, for a short period of time. In my case it was a godsend because I could get the data off of the system onto anothe networked mac. It definitively can NOT be the difference between power: the PB100 takes the DC power from it's power supply, which doesn't vary with the input voltage. That the FDD gave up the ghost is also indicative...bet the power or data cable's gotten jostled loose. > -- Bruce Johnson Wherever you go, there you are. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
