first, try the mac without the extra drive. it sounds like a memory problem with the mac, usually fixed by cleaning the edges with a clean pencil eraser and blowing the crumbs off.
second, nothing you did should have hurt the drive or the mac. third, it would really, really help to know what the error message was specifically. in any case, that could have been an early symptom of the memory problem. John Stetson wrote: > > Well, I picked up an external scsi drive for my SE/30. > I hooked it up with a terminator, set it to ID 2, > powered up the drive, then powered up my Mac. The > external drive didn't mount, although it was > supposedly formatted for a Mac. I tried to format it > with a patched version of Apple HD SC Setup. It said > it couldn't initialize the drive because a file was > open or something. Well, after playing around for a > little while, my Mac died. Now when I start it up it > doesn't bong and displays gray, disjointed vertical > lines. I can hear the internal drive spin up, but > nothing else is happening in there. Is she dead??? > What did I do??? --------- -- The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible." --Senator Hubert H. Humphrey. Here it comes again <http://www.progressive.org/webex/wxmc042702.html><http://www.counterpunch.org/oden1.html> -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> 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/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
