Bob: Hold on before you reformat the 'bad' drive - I assume that it contains worthwhile information. Something like this happened to me last weekend, and I am presently composing this message on the same 2300c with the same drive. I was settling down to work last Friday night, and the Duo crashed during the boot process. Restart resulted in the chimes of death/sad mac. I initially thought I had a hardware problem, swapped drives, noted that the chimes of death followed the drive to the backup Duo. Proceeded calmly since I had miraculously performed a full backup on the office dock. I was back up and running on Monday since I was able to mount the drive in SCSI disc mode via the minidock and another mac, or was able to boot via the HD in the dock via the cmd-sh-opt-del power on combination to skip the normal boot volume. Reinstalled drivers, clean install OS8.6, conflict catcher reconciliation between old & new sys folders and all is well. 0000000F indicates that the chimes of death result from some kind of "exception", and the codes arent that well documented. Mine was 00000003, not 00000001. Not sure if the driver and the system were damaged, or just the driver. Separate issue: Also discovered that external modem now has decent throughput on the dock serial ports when appletalk is turned OFF under OS 8.6 with energy management from 8.1 F. >Message Number: 3 >Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 03:55:47 -0400 >From: Kiran Wagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: OS 8.1 "Quirks" > >>From: Bob Rodert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>I get a set of strange sounding chimes, a small computer/frown face >>icon and the numbers 0000000F and 00000001. This occurs shortly >>after the screen illuminates and before any images appear. > >The Sad Mac. That's *usually* a hardware failure (more precisely, >it's supposed to always be a hardware problem, like bad RAM) but >there is *one* software problem that can cause it--namely, the >dreaded bad disk driver. I've seen this twice, always due to the >disk driver. (I've never had a hardware failure other than RAM and >power supplies.) > >The usual suggestions about removing that drive and trying to boot >from a known-good drive apply here. And of course, reformatting the >drive. > >~ Kiran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---------- 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> XRouter | Share your DSL or cable modem between multiple computers! Dr. Bott | Now $199.99 <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>
