My Reply follows quote. On 03/12/2005 07:42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >Hello list, > >I just got my hands on a Quadra 950 without a hard drive, just a floppy, >which was bad (it wouldn't take floppies in). > >The mac has the following problem: > >The mac displays a floppy with a flashing X. > >After replacing the floppy drive with an auto - inject one, the mac >displays the same flashing diskette with an X, and a startup floppy >*known*¨to work gets ejected. > >I tried another floppy drive *known* to work and same thing (also >auto-inject). > >If I disconnect the floppy I get the familiar flashing question mark. > >Any ideas as to what may be happenning? > >Thanks for the help, > >Mauricio ------------ The flashing "X" generally means that the disk was "seen" but that there was no system on the disk useable on the computer you are using.
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