On Oct 25, 2005, at 4:58 PM, Kyle Koerner wrote:
New to this list and new to the Powerbook world. I just purchased a Powerbook 100 in good condition from eBay, with the following issue: The hard drive is not seen. I have tried Disk Setup and SCSIProbe 4.3, and neither can see the drive. When the drive spins up, it makes the sound like it's trying to initialize, but it can't, then it tries again, and then it boots from the floppy. It's almost like the hard drive is "stuck".
This is a little hard: the drive sounds failed, although there are some things you can try in a last ditch hope to bring it back, this isn't good. In all likelihood the drive is dead; at best, if you can bring it back, it's not going to be trustworthy.
The problem is that the pb100 uses a laptop (2.5") internal SCSI drive; made of unobtanium these days, you can only get very old ones.
With the proper cables you could try booting it from an external SCSI drive though.
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