With some trepidation I've weighed the pros and cons and decided to reattempt to install a IBM travelstar drive in my 2400. The last time I did this was an expensive fiasco as the drive was DOA and my attempts to install it resulted in a dead logic board. Dunno if I brushed a resistor with a screwdriver, or was careless with my static electricity grounding or if the power draw of the madly clicking and spinning malfunctioning hard drive did the logic board in.It's not something I want to have happen again, so my dissassembly will be a bit less sloppy than previously. I've considered sending it out, but I hate having it gone for a week. I'm familiar with tearing the 2400 down. The part I'm not confident of is installing the driver on the hard drive. Last time I used a copy of the 2400 startup floppy with the newest version of Disktools to install the drive. That was followed by an attempt to boot the 2400 off a system CD. Both failed to bring up the new drive and the 3rd and all subsequent attempts to start up the 2400 failed as the logic board had by then died. This time, I'm wondering if putting the 2400 in SCCI mode off my desktop and installing the driver from it might be the most surefire way of doing it. My concern is to avoid a 2nd possibly defective drive from frying the logic board if by chance that was the cause the first time. I'm assuming that SCCI mode somehow bypasses the logic board which may or may not be the case. Having just re-read this, it dawns on me that SCCI mode won't work cause the drive's not initialized. <sigh> Oh well, any suggestions, advice, experiences or admonishments on installing the hard drive and initializing it are appreciated. TIA JPM ---------- 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>
