My Reply follows quote. On 28/10/2005 17:22 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >--- Jane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Unplug all peripherals and try again with the shift >> key down.. >> >> On Oct 27, 2005, at 10:32 PM, PETE wrote: >> >> > Now I have a new problem: The computer starts but >> > all I get is the screen with the mac face and >> that's >> > it, does the same thing if I try to start using >> the OS >> > 9 cd. Even pressing the famous cuda does not help. >> Any >> > help will be appreciated. >> >Unpluging all peripherals does not help. To go back to >the start, this computer had two drives with the >second drive acting as a storage unit. The second >drive mounts but I can't access most of the info >because the first drive has the system software (I >will probably have to install the system in this drive >eventually). The major problem is how do I recover the >data in the first drive? It was working fine until I >removed it from the computer. I need to transfer that >data to another drive since it is about 99% full. > A second question is this: suppose I install system >software on a different drive and make this drive the >start up drive can I mount the first drive (the non >working one) as a second drive even though it was the >start up drive before it started acting up? >TIA. >Pete. ---------- I still can't figure out if you have properly set the SCSI ID and termination jumpers in order to use the drive as a second internal SCSI drive.
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