Re: Need assistance getting new HD recognized on my Pismo

[darm0k]

At 05:22 PM -0500 04/09/2004, James Rohde wrote:
I recently got a Toshiba 60GB and installed it in my Pismo
Drive set to Master?

Cables seated firmly?

So I figured I needed to start up with my original Pismo (9.0.4) install
or restore CDROM(s). However, when I try to boot up with either of those,
I get as far as the startup screen and it freezes
Try with shift key held down.

Can you boot fully with the new HD disconnected?
 (trying to verify it's a bus/device hang, not something else)
external FireWire/USB case with my Pismo's old 10GB drive
If it's not a master/slave issue, and disconnecting the HD lets your 
PB boot... Put the original HD back in.  Put the new drive in the 
external bridge case.  Boot.  Then plug in the external and see if 
you can use / format the drive.

HTH,
- Dan.
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Need assistance getting new HD recognized on my Pismo

[James Rohde]

I recently got a Toshiba 60GB and installed it in my Pismo (which has 
been out of action for a while - another story...). I was going to 
install MacOS X.2.3 Jaguar onto it (DVD in the Pismo's DVD/CDROM drive), 
and it started up okay. But, it doesn't recognize any other drive besides 
the install disc.

So I figured I needed to start up with my original Pismo (9.0.4) install 
or restore CDROM(s). However, when I try to boot up with either of those, 
I get as far as the startup screen and it freezes about there (at least, 
the drive stops spinning, the pointer isn't visible and I get no response 
from moving the trackpad, clicking the mousepad button, etc.). 
Occasionally, I get a bus error message and a choice to Restart (but 
clicking on that button doesn't do anything, and I have to do the 
three-finger salute to restart.

I have an external FireWire/USB case with my Pismo's old 10GB drive (and 
9.0.4 instaled on it), but I get no further than the startup screen with 
that - not sure if it's completely recognizing/loading the system files 
from that. Is there a keyboard command to force the Pismo to start with 
the OS on the Firewire drive (or would I be better off trying to use the 
USB cable instead?)?

Getting frustrated and hoping there's a way to figure how to get things 
resolved (short of a big expensive bill for sending it off).

TIA,

Jim Rohde



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