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From: magorian@umd5.umd.edu (Dan Magorian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Another bizarre keyboard problem
Message-ID: <7116@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: 15 Aug 90 23:50:58 GMT
References: <1990Aug4.110706.28526@lth.se> <1990Aug13.192343.5613@gorgo.ifi.unizh.ch> <5484@adobe.UUCP> <2177@cernvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: magorian@umd5.umd.edu (Dan Magorian)
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[In the referenced articles David Gelphman, Roland Mansson and Daniel
 Schaerer describe the problem of a Mac II failing to recognize its
 keyboard after about 50% of startups].

I had this problem as well, numerous times.  Last night I noticed that both
machines doing it were attempting to boot first from an external disk that 
once had a system folder on it (boot blocks set), failing, and switching
to the internal disk with the right blessed folder.  When I set the Set
Startup CDEV to the right disk, and stopped the partial switch booting, the
problem stopped (so far).  Interestingly, the ex-System Folder was System 7.
Could this be other people's problem as well?

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