>I have a Performa 550 which is showing the ? icon on startup. When I insert >disk tools it does open up, but does not show nor recognize the presence of a >hard drive. Is there anything I can do other than put in a new hard drive? > >Bailey > Reseat and/or clean or replace the internal SCSI cable (both ends!). I suppose the HD in question was working before (and has a suitable System Folder, of course). If you are not sure about this, make sure the internal HD is properly terminated and set to a SCSI ID not taken by another device on the SCSI bus (ID 3 is usually taken by the CD-ROM, for instance. Use SCSI Probe to verify this; be extremely careful if it says "bus not terminated", this can be caused by a lot of SCSI problems).
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