Hi!
Quoting Kyle:
> New to this list and new to the Powerbook world. I just purchased a
> Powerbook 100 in good condition from eBay, with the following issue:
> The hard drive is not seen. I have tried Disk Setup and SCSIProbe 4.3,
> and neither can see the drive. When the drive spins up, it makes the
> sound like it's trying to initialize, but it can't, then it tries
> again, and then it boots from the floppy. It's almost like the hard
> drive is "stuck". Any hopes of reviving this thing?
I have an LC III with a hard drive with similar symptoms that will start
working if I warm up the drive by putting a light bulb close to it for a while.
But that particular drive is a rarity in that 99.9% of drives that show similar
symptoms are junk.
Willi
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