Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!nikhefk!keeshu
From: keeshu@nikhefk.UUCP (Kees Huyser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: HDisk dissapear, but still there!?
Message-ID: <341@nikhefk.UUCP>
Date: 8 Apr 88 14:25:17 GMT
References: <22103@tis.llnl.gov>
Reply-To: keeshu@nikhefk.UUCP (Kees Huyser)
Organization: National Institute for Nuclear Physics; Netherlands
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In article <22103@tis.llnl.gov> sierra@ati.tis.llnl.gov (Frankie Sierra) writes:
#.....
#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

Try zapping the parameter ram. The Mac sometimes gets confused and 
f**ks up the PRam. After resetting that things ought to come back to normal.

I think the combination is option-clover-shift reboot or something like that.
If that doesn't work, pry open the little battery lid on the back of the Mac,
take out the battery for 10 minutes, put it back in again and try rebooting.

Don't forget to reset the time, date and all other things the PRam remembers.

-- Kees
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