>O.K., this time I hooked my 4.8 Gig IBM IDE drive in my PowerBook Duo 2300 to
>my 6500 in SCSI Disk Mode. Both computers were running OS 8.6 and were
>formatted in HFS+. So I quit SCSI disk mode and sure enough, my Duo would not
>start up on its own -- flashing floppy disk and all! It did start up in my
>dock
>with the internal SCSI drive. It was there that I ran Norton Utilities
>4.0.4 on
>it by adding the disk under "add custom disk". Norton got halfway through the
>repair and then quit for "unknown reasons". When I restarted and tried to run
>Norton again, I could not find the disk. I could not even see the disk using
>Apple's Drive Setup could not find the disk to even initialize it! I finally
>found it using Disk First Aid, but every time I tried to repair it using
>that,
>the computer crashed. I finally discovered that by first finding the disk
>using
>Disk First Aid, I could then find it under Norton Utilities and Drive Setup.
>But I could still not repair it.
>
>What's up with this!?!
David,
Why not just wipe the disk once you've found it? Sounds like your
drivers are corrupt.
paul
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