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- From: ckix@crux3.cit.cornell.edu (George Paci)
- Subject: Help: SE can't find internal HD
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- Keywords: internal hard drive SE scsi
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- Organization: Cornell Information Technologies
- Date: 11 Jan 93 21:37:47 GMT
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- The hardware:
- 1988-vintage Mac SE (68000, internal 20 Mb hard drive, 800K floppy drive)
- Club Mac 100 Mb hard drive (scsi)
-
- The system software:
- 6.0.3 and 7.0
-
- Some history:
- I had money and needed disk space, and my younger brother had a
- 100 Mb external hard drive and needed money, so I bought his drive
- for slightly less than he'd paid for it.
-
- I hadn't yet upgraded to System 7, but he had, so I figured I could just
- run 7 off of the external, and 6 off of the internal. This didn't really
- work out, since 7 likes to rebuild desktops too much, so I did something
- which was probably dumb, but probably unconnected to my problem: I
- just copied his system folder onto my internal. This seemed to work
- well, though occasionally, the internal drive wouldn't be recognized
- (i.e. wouldn't appear when I did a scsi id search, but then would show
- up five seconds later when I did another search).
-
- I'd already copied all of my files from the internal to the external
- (a convenient, if expensive, backup medium), so I figured what the hell:
- reformat my internal, and copy back all the files that I need to load
- quickly (system software, applications, a couple stacks). This, too,
- seemed to work.
-
- After a few restarts (which in this case means a week later, since I
- rarely shut my Mac down), the internal drive was consistently not
- appearing when I did a scsi id search. I unplugged the external drive
- (serial cable and power), tried to reboot, and got the floppy-with-the-
- flashing-? icon -- my Mac no longer recognized its internal drive!
-
- This is still the case, a couple days' fiddling later. I've even
- tried changing the scsi id number on the external drive, but nothing
- works: even with the external drive completely disconnected, the Mac
- won't boot off of the internal hard drive.
-
- Questions:
- o What's wrong with my hard drive? Is it OK for me to keep using
- the external for now?
-
- o How did it get that way? Did I break any rules doing what I did?
- Could I have replaced the driver (when I reformatted it) with an
- incompatible one?
-
- o How do I fix it? There's only a few K of text on the internal
- that's not backed up on the external, so I'm more worried about
- getting my storage space back than about getting my data back.
-
- Please e-mail me responses, both because I'd like to get them fairly
- quickly, and because I'm not sure how interested the other readers
- of this group are in this particular problem. I'll summarize to the
- net if there's demand for it.
-
- Thank you in advance,
- --George Paci
-