At 12:43 -0400 on 24/07/01, Chelley Vician wrote:
>When you startup an LCIII, and get an error message (Type 28), what does
>that mean?
>
>Background:
>I have an LCIII that is maxed out in RAM and has a 270MB drive. It has been
>sitting in storage for a bit. I set it up yesterday and it booted fine,
>although it appears that the PRAM battery is dead because it thinks it is
>1956. That aside, I tried connecting SCSI devices as I wish to use this
>machine as a backup server for my other Macs. I could successfully connect
>a SyQuest 230MB removable, my APS tape backup drive, and another external
>hard drive. When I tried connecting my external 4X CD-Rom drive---by
>itself, not with other SCSI devices (that used to be always connected to
>this Mac), the Mac would not startup and would show the Type 28 error code.
>I even tried re-installing FWB CD-Rom Toolkit and got the same results
>(though it just said System error and did not give me the code).
Methinks FWB and 7.5.5 don't get along too well; try upgrading to 7.6.1 or
downgrading to 7.1 Update 3 and see what happens. 7.5.x was generally
pretty buggy compared to 7.1 or 7.6.
p
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