I think the disk driver was the problem, owing to my installing different
system software from the previous user and being incautious about drivers.
In fact it does seem that the problems were bus related and that's why they
were intermittent.
Thanks very much for your help!
>> From: Neil Heyde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> The 2300 seems to need the power manager reset quite frequently,
>> otherwise instead of starting up properly the hard drive goes into a
>> repeated sort of clicking (before the happy mac appears). Sometimes
>> it appears to start up OK but just gives up part way through the
>> startup sequence, and then on next startup the clicking happens.
>
> I had a similar problem with the PB 2400 I'm looking at. The drive
> tried to spin up and then shut down with a scary clunk. I was able
> to reboot from a CD, and the drive appeared to work fine, so i
> suspected a hosed driver. Indeed, reformatting and reinstalling the
> system led to a working drive. And when I looked up the version of
> Drive Setup that came with 8.0 (8.1 was installed, but I assume using
> an updater) it was in fact the dreaded 1.3, which had already crashed
> another of my machines.
>
> Driver problems are usually *not* intermittent, but they can be. In
> some cases, it depends what else is on the bus--a drive can boot fine
> till you put something else on the bus, and then it crashes.
>
> ~ Kiran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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