Hi Barry
Where in the uk are you . William On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 5:13 PM Barry Cross <ygwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have an old Mac Quadra 700 which has long since given up the ghost, and > I have reluctantly decided to part company with it. > > I am a pensioner living in the UK without my own transport or access to > it, so regrettably anyone wanting it will have to collect it. > > I am not going to haggle over the price, I just want to get shot of it. > > > Here is the Every Mac specs for this model; > > https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_quadra/specs/mac_quadra_700.html > > > The internal hard drive is an DB-25 SCSI drive 270Mb size, but it is not > an Apple Mac SCSI drive with ID = 0. > > *Instead it is an IBM model with an ID = 6.* > > > Therein lay my problem which it now has, of a *Boot-up failure caused by > an ID conflict*. > > That I have been unable to rectify hence my decision to part company with > the Mac. > > > The problem only occurred when I connected an external SCSCI device a ZIP > drive, which has only 2 ID settings 5 and 6. > > The Zip drive must have been faulty and permanently set on ID 6, causing > the Mac Hard Drive ID and the Zip Drive ID to clash. > > > I am not sure of its actual RAM except that its not the max of 68 Mb and I > have not increased it. Once I have been able to ascertain the exact size I > will add that info to the post. > > > Just added a photo of the insides including the Hard drive. > > -- > -- > ----- > You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs > group. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to vintage-macs@googlegroups.com > To leave this group, send email to > vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs > > Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Vintage Macs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vintage-macs/f2556c96-5d43-4842-b1c6-8dee18125299o%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vintage-macs/f2556c96-5d43-4842-b1c6-8dee18125299o%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to vintage-macs@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vintage Macs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vintage-macs/CA%2B8bnA3oMB%3D4HPLOigjj9wU2gdMg8PRLfngYaywZS88BcNRZww%40mail.gmail.com.
