Re: slow booting kanga

Fri, 15 Aug 2003 08:54:55 -0700

I'll reformat today. Bummer. The Kanga came with a 5 gig drive, but I replaced it with the 20 gig I had in my 3400c. Once it boots, everything is fine. In fact, it boots just fine with extensions off. The first extension that loads is Adaptec UDF Volume Access. Then it hangs.


Dan, what is the original SW for the Kanga?
I had a terrible problem with either the Finder or the
HDD driver or both (trying 9.1, 8.6 partitions) on my
3400.
After weeks of fiddling, I got a Compaq HDD that had
never seen a Mac HDD driver. Installed and formatted
it with Disk ToolsFloppy (OS7.6) for the
3400. Now running 8.1 with the 7.6 driver, and
incomparably better - using ethernet connection and
iCab 2.9.5.
When it freezes though, I need up to 5 restarts to
load any extensions at all.
I am getting constant clicking from the HDD area - I
think it may be the fan, although I think it never
normally turns off during usage. If it's the HDD, it
isn't affecting performance.
Again, I strongly suspect the mix of drivers and
partitions did some weird corruption of the Finder (?)
on the (original) Mac ROM 1.3 Gig HDD.
I am still testing.
George



--- Tom Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
 Reformat the hard drive and then install the OS and
 if it still boots slowly then there might be some
 hardware issue.

-tom

 > ----------
 > From:     Dan Scanlan
 > Subject:  slow booting kanga
 >


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