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From: sierra@ati.tis.llnl.gov (Frankie Sierra)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: HDisk dissapear, but still there!?
Message-ID: <22103@tis.llnl.gov>
Date: 5 Apr 88 20:56:34 GMT
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Reply-To: sierra@ati.tis.llnl.gov (Frankie Sierra)
Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore CA
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I have been using a Peripheral Land 90i hard disk on my Mac II for
about 4 weeks without any problems.  But last night, I was checking
out some public domain desk accesories using a DA tester program.
As usual one of those DAs crash on the Mac II, and I press the RESTART
button in the bomb dialog with no effects (as usual again).  Thus I
proceed to press the programmers button to restart the machine, and
guess what, the system found no disk to boot up.

After inserting the floppy system disk, I perceived that the hard disk
was not present on the desktop (was not mounted).  After checking with
various system utilities, all of them agree in that there is no hard
disk installed on the SCSI port 0.  But when using the Peripheral
Lands utilities, the disk is there and in good shape.

I dismounted the hard disk, boot up without it, remounted again, but
no luck.  All connections are fine.  It seems like the system got
amnesia.  How can I make the system to believe that in fact the Hard
Disk is there?

Frankie Sierra
sierra@ati.tis.llnl.gov