At 10:15 PM -0500 2/19/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Have just installed an IBM Travelstar model #IDE2518.1 in my 2400 and have >the System 8 CD booted up as I type this. Using Drive Setup, I don't get a >scan of the hard drive so I can't initialize it. Help! > >I can hear the drive spinning and clicking in the case so I'm sure it's >connected. The PB boots up so I haven't broken it. I noticed on the case >that there were some diagrams of jumper settings so I wonder if this is >where I've gone wrong. The drive should be set to be a master with no slave present. Alternatively, the "cable select" setting (if any) may work. What is the default setting according to the diagrams? >None came with the drive, nor do I know where to put >them unless they go on the extra side pins that didn't fit into the drive >connector on the motherboard. That's usually where they go on 2.5" IDE drives. You will need to buy some jumpers from a computer store; ask for the small size (large size jumpers are 0.1 inch between pins, small are 2mm between pins). >PS Found the plastic burning smell I posted about previously. There's a >burn mark in the plastic frame betweem the edge of the G3 daughterboard and >the PRAM battery. There is a square component labeled "100 10V" on the >card near the burn mark that must really get hot. . . Urk. That sounds like something I saw on one of the Japanese 2400 pages once. This is a Newer Technology G3 card, right? The pages I saw showed that one of the bypass capacitors on the card was too close to the metal-coated plastic frame, and would short out against it and burn up. (100 10V sounds like a capacitor marking -- the 100 is the size and 10V is the voltage rating.) Newer Technology later revised the card and moved the capacitors to prevent this problem. When I installed it, I checked my Newer 240/1M card against the pictures, and not only did it have the capacitors moved away from the edge, it also had a strip of Kapton tape installed. Now, you may not have a short. I'd expect a short to cause the PowerBook to not work until it was corrected. You may just have a bad capacitor which has internally shorted and burned itself up until it wasn't a short any more. Is the component itself burned at all? I would contact the manufacturer of the accelerator about a replacement. Nothing on the card should ever get hot enough to scorch the plastic frame. The only component which normally uses enough power to get that hot is the CPU, and it is heatsinked so it won't get that hot. Tim Seufert ---------- Duo/2400 List, The friendliest place on the Net! A listserv for users and fans of Mac subportables. FAQ at <http://www.themacintoshguy.com/lists/DuoListFAQ.shtml> Be sure to visit Mac2400! <http://www.sineware.com/mac2400> X-Router | Share your DSL or cable modem between multiple computers! Dr. Bott | <http://www.drbott.com/prod/MIH120.html> PowerBook Guy is | Click here! Everything PowerBook! | http://www.powerbookguy.com Midwest Mac Parts ][ <http://www.midwestmac.com> After-market parts for Macs. ][ 888-356-1104 ][ MacResQ Reader Specials: 2.5GB Seagate SCSI: $119, 4GB IBM SCSI: $199, Norton Util. 4.0: $29, Mac Parts, Systems & Repairs <http://www.macresq.com>
