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From: volaski@acsu.buffalo.edu (Maurice Volaski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: IIsi can't boot from external hard drive
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Date: 22 Dec 90 04:09:05 GMT
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My Mac IIsi won't boot from my external hard disk, an old 32 mb Ehman.
What happens is immediately after the Ehman's access light blinks,
the eerie startup sound occurs and the gloomy sad mac icon appears.
From its own internal Apple hard disk, the Mac works fine. It's also
possible to plug in the Ehman while in the Finder and mount it with
SCSI Probe. It works fine in this case.
I can also boot from the Ehman off a Mac II.

Any ideas what might be causing this?

Thanks,

Maurice Volaski