Aside from your suggestions, it might also be worth trying to clean or replace the floppy drive as it may have it's own problems.
On Jun 22, 1:12 pm, Jeff Walther <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jun 22, 9:40 am, Alex Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I have an LC that is doing the exact same thing. It's not the PRAM > > battery, or the logic board, or the HDD. The floppy drive must be > > dirty because right before my LC died it stopped reading floppies. > > Another possibility, in both cases, is that the electronics on the > hard drive (or CD-ROM drive) died in such a way that the SCSI bus is > munged. > > Now the original poster mentioned that he tried removing the hard > drive, but I'm not sure if he tried booting from the CDROM drive at > that time. Even if he did, the hard drive may have been providing the > termination to the SCSI bus, so he would have had a termination issue > without the hard drive. > > One should remove the hard drive, make sure termination is provided, > and try booting from the CDROM. And the reverse, disconnect the > CDROM drive, make sure termination is properly provided and try > booting from the hard drive. > > Of course, if the floppy is working on the original poster's machine, > he should try just unplugging the SCSI cable(s) altogether and see if > it will boot from a floppy. > > Jeff Walther -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
