On 12/12/02 at 10:35 pm, Richard Kenward wrote: > With just one SCSI H drive correctly jumpered for 0 no other drive > connected, just the video card inserted in the PCI slots. Ram as > supplied 353Mb. What surprises me and, I am not normally a Mac > user, is that on start-up there is two seconds of H disk activity, > with nothing more for about one minute, then the drive starts again > and the screen bursts into life and we are on our way.
Sounds as though it's looking for something, not finding it, and trying to figure out what to do. As it's this early in the startup (I'm assuming it's right at the beginning) I'm sure that's significant, but I don't know the answer! It's more likely to be hardware at that stage of proceedings I'd think, or possibly drivers; is the hard disk formatted using Apple drivers? > This has not always been the case it has normally been very > temperamental. Very little software is installed BTW. As many > extensions as possible are off. Have you tried it with them all on? It's a good idea to disable extensions for as long as it takes to ascertain whether or not it's an extension problem, but in fact running with extensions disabled is crippling the machine somewhat. > An ongoing problem has been the SCSI CD drive. It is not very > happy to recognise CD's. Well it seems happy with the OS 9.1 disk, > will sometimes tolerate a CD written on another Mac containing > scanner software, but keeps throwing out CD's written on Win2K > machines. There is an extension called ISO 9660 File Access; is that one turned on? Sorry I can't be more help; still thinking about it though... -- best wishes Paul http://www.paulbradforth.com =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
