Hello listees, I disconnected the internal drive from the internal bus last night, and tried booting from the CDROM with the original Supermac system CD. It took about twelve trys, but I finally got it to get all the way thru the booting, and display the desktop and icons, and the mouse responding. Once it was there, I could open up the applications with no trouble, but of course, there was no other drive on the bus to do interact with.
I suspect that the unterminated internal SCSI bus is the reason for having to try so many times to boot it. The computer will not go to the CDROM to boot if the probably-defective HD is on the bus, even with the C key held, or the CTL/SHFT/DEL/OPTN keys held down. There is no second internal bus that I can see, at least none with a cable hanging from it, inside the computer. There is a 50 pin socket near the 25 pin SCSI external socket at the rear of the main PCB. I don't have any other bus cables at this point. I'm thinking that further work will have to await the arrival of the new HD, which will be a 50pin 4GB type scsi HD, unless anyone has any further ideas. I'm considering both upgrading the system from 7.6, as well as a PCI card to run both an ext drive and possibly a CD burner (both hopefully would be more modern types, if the system can run them). More soon, cal -- 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! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; 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/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
