On Saturday, September 6, 2003, at 06:26 PM, Allan Trick wrote:
I need a little feedback on something if you have any...
Last night I was copying some files from a Zip 100 disk to my PowerBook 5300. Everything was going fine until I dragged a folder of files over, it started copying, and then it stopped midway through like it was copying a REALLY big file--the Zip amber light kept on making it look like it was busy too--and then I noticed everything else on the PB desktop went away (HD icon, etc.) and it appeared to have frozen. I forced a reboot from the keyboard and reset the Zip drive too. When I restarted the PB, there was just a big black diamond with a "2" in it bouncing around on the screen. I guess that's a symbol for SCSI port 2?
That's the clue right there.
You were in SCSI Disk Mode, which means you must have a switchable SCSI cable that's acting flaky; I expect that if that switch gets thrown during normal operations, all sorts of weirdness will ensue. It could a be a switch that's partially thrown, so sometimes it makes contact, sometimes it doesn't, or it could be a physically broken switch, or crud in there making contact.
If you are *certain* you're not using a cable that can be switched into SCSI mode something's wrong with the cable itself, or the scsi connections on the motherboard.
Try a different SCSI cable, if you have one.
Unplug all scsi cables from the powerbook and try booting. All the strangeness could well have confused the power manager so try this <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58416>
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