I'm puzzled by the appearance of the old happy face thing, as I thought that image was system 6 and earlier, and not anywhere on or in this machine.
It's built into the ROMs on our machines too. We usually don't see it as the machine flies right past it very quickly in this era (or even a couple of eras ago where we all live) of very fast hard drives.
My plan, unless someone has a better idea, is to buy a new 4GB SCSI 50 pin drive (as I was gonna do that anyway, in order to back up my stuff), and try to boot from the system CD with only the new drive in place (as SCSI ID=0), then format the new drive, install 7.6 on it, then refit the old drive as SCSI ID=1, and hopefully salvage my data from the old drive to the new one.
This is a good plan. Another thing to try is to put the new drive and the CDROM on SCSI bus 0 (the internal fast bus) and the old drive on SCSI bus 1 (the internal/external bus). It sounds like the electronics on the old drive are faulty enough that it's interfering with the operation of the SCSI chain. Putting it on a different SCSI bus might help.
Has anyone seen anything like this? Could the existing drive have gone bad? I hope not, as I haven't had a way to back up for a while.
It sounds very much like a failed hard drive. Your prescription described above is a good place to start.
Jeff Walther
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