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- From: howes@cat16.cs.wisc.edu (Glenn Howes)
- Subject: My PB100 hard disk woes
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.070808.18286@daffy.cs.wisc.edu>
- Sender: news@daffy.cs.wisc.edu (The News)
- Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison -- Computer Sciences Dept.
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 07:08:08 GMT
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- For the last several weeks, I've been getting a crash every few days,
- usually immediately after waking my PB100, after which the hard drive
- refuses to mount, I get the flashing question mark icon on a restart.
- Booting off the Disk Tools disk and running Apple's HD Setup program reveals
- that there is apparently no SCSI disk present.
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- At first, I fixed the problem by removing all the batteries, opening the case
- and reseating the drives cable, but then I realized that it might be the
- removal of power itself that might be doing the fixing. Sure enough it did,
- if you gave it long enough. Just now the crash happened, so as I was
- beginning to reboot off the Disk Tools disk, I zapped the PRAM, and the
- hard drive came back on line.
-
- So my question is: Do you think it is reasonable that some piece of
- software I use is setting the SCSI id number (which since it is user settable
- must be stored in PRAM) to some invalid number, causing a) a crash and
- b) the drive to disappear? Has anyone else seen this and how would you
- suggest searching out the offending software?
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- Glenn R. Howes /\ Kermit Tool GH/YModem Tool GH
- howes@bert.chem.wisc.edu \/ hometown: FrostBite Falls, MN
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