Dave Greenwood writes
Dear Dave and ListRichard, I've had a couple of macs of this vintage in the past, and they both eventually had to have the cd drive replaced, sounds like yours is due too. Only a few are compatible so check carefully, your test with your spare cd might of worked with a suitable third party driver.
I have been totally overwhelmed with phone calls, emails and of course postings here and have been trying the various suggestions whilst trying to put together an all embracing posting so as not to clutter up the list too much.
Please accept this apology for not having responded to everyone but I will!
Dave thanks for the above..this Mac came with two H drives, one an Apple badged IBM 4Gb made in 1997 and presumably the original one and a second a Quantum Atlas ultra 160 of about 34Gb. My suspicions are that this newer drive may be a tad too recent for smooth operation, I am sure someone will confirm that! Just a point, this drive uses a 68 to 50 pin reducer.
When the Mac arrived it would sometimes only show one or the other drive on the desktop and both had systems on them. It seemed that the small drive was more fraught than the other so was removed. When last tried it simply
As for your harddrive, it always seems drastic, but the best way to maintain harddrive health is to low level reformat with a utility of your choice, and reinstall your software. If you get bad sectors you need to put a HD on the shopping list as well.Have you tried the start up key presses? Zap pram: restart while holding command, option, P and R keys. Rebuild desktop: restart while holding command and option keys.
Yes tried these several times.
That would be good....thanks.I can send you a ram checker if you think you need it.
And now that I have got the Zip up and running this opens up the ability to download utilities etc. and sort the Mac....great!
Thanks Dave and everyone.
Cheers
Richard
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