At 13:06 -0500 03/30/2002, Phillip L. Meza wrote: >Question#1 ...did a "Spike" occur or did my power supply fail at some >point? I think I've read somewhere that "Slaving" is not always successful > on this machine, the power supply is not "Large enough"?
Pulling the ADB cable while the machine is turned on can ruin your ADB bus (actually the CUDA chip) and it can freeze up a machine as you saw. It might even cause a machine to turn off. It shouldn't be able to cause any kind of power spike to the rest of the machine--nothing more serious than being turned off abruptly. If your mouse and keyboard are still working, then your ADB bus came through fine. >Question#2 ...has anyone used a data recovery service? they seem very >expensive. Alternatives? >Question#3 ...any tricks for mounting/troubleshooting that I'm not aware of? If you have not done so, the first thing I would do is unplug the machine, remove the battery, press the CUDA switch for about 30 seconds and then maybe let the machine sit for a couple of hours. It is possible that you have some corrupt PRAM or NVRAM settings. The above should settle any such issues. I think Tech Tool Pro has a utility for resetting the PRAM and NVRAM, so you might try that instead. If that doesn't help, try booting up from OS 8.6. You wrote that all your volumes are HFS+. I've run into some weird problems where HFS+ volumes refuse to mount under OS 9.1. Perhaps your problem is related in some way. I'd try those two things as a start. Nothing else comes immediately to mind. Norton has a wide variety of tools, so even if you can't mount the drives, I'd be very surprised if you can't recover files off of them with Norton's File Recovery utility. Jeff Walther -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | PowerON Computer Services <http://www.poweron.com> REPLACEMENT PARTS in STOCK Drives, CD-ROMs, RAM, Processors, Power Supply <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
