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From: martyl@bucket.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Need help with MAC II....HELP!
Message-ID: <588@bucket.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Nov-87 20:51:50 EST
Article-I.D.: bucket.588
Posted: Wed Nov 11 20:51:50 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 14-Nov-87 14:34:45 EST
Organization: Rick's Home-Grown UNIX; Portland, OR.
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Summary: How I fixed it

Well after about a week I got LOTS of help from all of you out there on
USENET and I would like to extend my thanks.

To summarize my problem the ram cache on my Mac II got set to 750K and the
control panel would not let me open the control panel again to turn it off.
Also with a 750K cache there was no room for any application to run.

The final solution was:
Hold down "command", "option" and "shift" while opening the control panel.
Then I reset the "pram".  Things still didn't work so I rebooted.  Now the
hard disk would not boot.  A total reload from the backup disks using HD
Backup did not work.  The disk was initialized and reloaded.....now the moment
of truth.....the smile mac came up and then the system proceeded to trash the 
disk.  I then initialized the disk AGAIN.  Now the HD 40 boots!!!  A reload 
from floppy and all data was recovered.

Lesson learned:  1) Don't mess with things just for kicks.
                 2) Backups are very important.
                 3) The APPLE manuals that come with the Mac II are very
                    basic and inadequaate.
                 4) Some people (me) just never learn :-)


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tektronix!reed!omen!bucket!martyl  (Marty Lee)