The floppy is designed for a Quadra 950 (it is the install me first of
A/UX 3.0 actually) I double checked this by inserting it in a mac
classic (the mac did start up and bombed after asking for an FPU).
Now, what I don't understand is that there is no question mark in all of
this, the X is displayed as soon as the machine is turned on, even if
there is no floppy in the drive... :-(
--M
Ken wrote:
My Reply follows quote. On 03/12/2005 07:42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Hello list,
I just got my hands on a Quadra 950 without a hard drive, just a floppy,
which was bad (it wouldn't take floppies in).
The mac has the following problem:
The mac displays a floppy with a flashing X.
After replacing the floppy drive with an auto - inject one, the mac
displays the same flashing diskette with an X, and a startup floppy
*known*¨to work gets ejected.
I tried another floppy drive *known* to work and same thing (also
auto-inject).
If I disconnect the floppy I get the familiar flashing question mark.
Any ideas as to what may be happenning?
Thanks for the help,
Mauricio
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The flashing "X" generally means that the disk was "seen" but
that there was no system on the disk useable on the computer
you are using.
Is the disk known to work on a Q950 or some other machine?
Ken
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