A little more info. These drives have been in these computers for at least a
year working fine. When I try to boot the IIci or 7500 the drives spin up
but then I get the flashing question mark. Could they have become unmounted
some how? I've also tried reseating the ram and vram, but that didn't seem
to do anything. I also was able to boot the 7500 to an external CD (since
now the internal CD doesn't seem to want work either) with system 8, and it
could see the internal cd and an unmounted drive which I'm assuming is the
HD. Could unplugging the original drive have done something when I tried to
add a slave drive, like a conflict that got rid of the start up drive?
Thanks
Thomas
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From: "lovek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "PCI PowerMacs" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 11:18 PM
Subject: Re: [PCI] Drive problems
>Hi,
This post has questions for the compact list and the PCI list, so I'll
post to both. I've been having some drive issues with a IIci and a 7500.
The IIci has a Turbo601, 128mbs ram, 2gb HD.
I'll either get the 4 chime sound and a black screen when I boot up or I
get the flashing question mark. I can boot from an external HD that's
running 7.0.1. Could this be a dead drive or could the Turbo601 have died?
loose ram or vram chip, processorchip, reseat them ?
The 7500 has a Crescendo 450mhz card, 512mb ram, 1gb quantum fb hd. I
tried to add a 9gb seagate scsi HD as a slave, but could never get it to
recognize the drive in combination with the master 1gb.
scsi are never set to "master and slave" that goes for ide disks - the
scsi is set for a id between 0 - 6 depending on what else is on the scsi -
chain,
I did get the machine to boot with a CD running 8.0 and formated the
drive and broke it into 4 partitions. Now when I boot all I get is the
flashing question mark when the original drive is in by itself. I cannot
boot from the CD any more either. I tried 3 other quantum drives and all
I get is the flashing question mark. How in the world can I have 5 dead
drives when they were all working?
did u hold down the c-key while booting up ?
reset the pram ? and try the c-key again.
L
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