The more I stumble along the more frustrated I get, I have concluded that the Power Manager circuitry in my Pismo is, in fact, defective. So I have decided to stay sleepless until it's convenient for me to live without the laptop while it's repaired. Having made that decision, I went to restore my hard drive using the DVD disks I built with .Mac Backup and guess what? THEY WON'T RESTORE! Tell Backup to restore from CD/DVD and the application says to insert the Master disk which it states should be the last one made when the backup was generated. There were only 2 DVDs built when I did the backup and it doesn't matter which one I put in the drive, the application just sits there spinning it's wheels while I shuffle DVDs in and out of the drive. I originally built the DVDs by placing the laptop in Target Disk mode on my G4 machine so I could burn the backup DVDs with my Superdrive on that machine. It appeared to work like a charm, but the recovery doesn't. Am I going to have to place the laptop back in Target Disk in order to recover? Stay tuned boys and girls, the saga continues....
Joe Ellis ___________________ "If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?" - Will Rogers ____________________ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph Ellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "G-Books" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 9:58 PM Subject: Re: Sleepless hard drive still sleepless in CT > Still no joy. The procedure outlined before doesn't work. Resetting > PRAM has not affected the problem and booting into OS 9 doesn't work. > It would appear I have a defective power manager circuit. So now what? > Live with it for now I guess. > > > > On Tuesday, October 1, 2002, at 01:01 PM, Joe Ellis wrote: > > > Thanks for the suggestion, will give it shot this evening. > > BTW where do you live? > > > > Joe Ellis > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "G-Books" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 12:43 PM > > Subject: Re: Sleepless hard drive still sleepless in CT > > > > > >> have you tried resetting the Open Firmware?? > >> > >> The process for doing this is as follows: > >> 1. swear off any revenge against me if your computer dies completely, > >> self-destructs, or catcches fire. > >> 2. startup, holding down Apple+Opt+O+F (Open Firmware) > >> 3. Type: reset-nvram (then hit return) > >> 4 You should get an "OK" > >> 5. Type: reset-all (then hit return) > >> 6 Type: reboot > >> > >> that should do it. > >> > >> Thanks, -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
