On Jul 10, 2005, at 11:17 PM, Robert M. Klein objected: > Lee, Disk Warrior does do a S.M.A.R.T. test and it said there was a > failure > or an imminent failure. But that does not explain why only the > Disk Warrior > CD will boot and not the Tiger DVD or the OS 9 Software Install and > Software > Restore CDs won't boot. I can accept that the drive is bad, but > not the > rest of the symptoms. I don't want to buy another hard drive until > I figure > out why I can't get anything except Disk Warrior to run, do I?
Bad hardware can do strange things. You can try to disconnect the bad drive inside the case to see if the problem goes away, but this might be a little more complicated than just unplugging it. If the bad drive is on the same IDE port as your DVD, then it could definitely affect the DVD. It's more likely you have two hard drives on a different IDE connector. Unplugging the bad drive will disconnect it and leave the rest of the system okay, if the two drives are set up for cable select, or the bad drive is the slave drive and the other is master. Even if the bad drive is a master, unplugging it won't hurt anything, but the second drive may not show up, and you can always move the jumper on the slave drive to make it a master, if necessary. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2363 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050711/f06c63a8/attachment.bin
