Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!mit-eddie!bbn.com!nic!chaos.cs.brandeis.edu!chaos!aland From: aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D Danziger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: I ruined my hard disk with System 7.0 Message-ID: Date: 1 Feb 91 00:14:24 GMT References: Sender: aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D Danziger) Organization: None Lines: 50 In-Reply-To: leo@duttnph.tudelft.nl's message of 31 Jan 91 11:29:03 GMT In article leo@duttnph.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart) writes: I have an SE/30 with a 40Mb internal hard disk and a 170 Mb external hard disk. Both disks had system 6.0.7 installed, with the external disk as my startup disk. When I was offered the chance to try out the System 7.0 beta, I jumped at it. But I had not enough empty diskettes at the time; and unthinkingly I did something incredibly stupid: I copied all the original System 7.0 diskettes to the external hard disk in order to store them temporarily until I got me some new diskettes. Forgetting of course the simple fact that the Mac was not going to like all those new system files now residing on my startup disk. While you are correct that this was a 'stupid' thing to do, it should not have caused your problem. Just having an 'extra' system file on your drive SHOULD not cause a problem, unless there is an extra finder in the same folder. Is it possible that something else happened at about the same time? If I turn on my Mac, I get the diskette icon with the flashing question mark, i.e. it does not even recognize the (unchanged) internal hard disk. It does not matter if the external disk is turned on or off. Well, as far as this goes, the external drive would have to be disconnected (rather than off) for it to make a difference. Floppy (6.0.x) startups are possible, but neither of the two hard disks then gets recognized or mounted. Silverlining tells me that SCSI ports 0 and 6 are 'in use' but it doesn't know with what ('0 Mb Drive'). If I disconnect the external disk from the SCSI port (and only then) will the Mac start up correctly using the internal hard disk. No problem. The next thing I tried was installing 7.0 correctly on the internal disk, but the Mac still only starts up if the external hard disk is not connected to the SCSI port. (And yes, system 7.0 looks really great, but all of a sudden I don't care so much about that any more :-( ) -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alan D. Danziger, | 753 South St,Waltham MA 02154 | "What a drag, aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu | MB 3130 / Brandeis University | it is, (617) 894-6859 or 647-3720 | PO Box 9110 Waltham MA 02254 | getting old" =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alan D. Danziger, | 753 South St,Waltham MA 02154 | "What a drag, aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu | MB 3130 / Brandeis University | it is,