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From: marc@Apple.COM (Mark Dawson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: When I installed my SIMMs... oops.
Message-ID: <38248@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 1 Feb 90 15:18:16 GMT
References: <77800002@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <3802@hub.UUCP>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <3802@hub.UUCP> 6600bike@hub.UUCP (Puneet Pasrich) writes:
>From article <77800002@m.cs.uiuc.edu>, by thompson@m.cs.uiuc.edu:
>> 
>> Nothing.  Nada.  The floppy didn't even register.  As far as I can tell, the
>>  internal floppy drive is not there anymore, according to the Mac.  When I put
>>  a disk in, even in the Finder, nothing happens.  FKEY 1 just beeps at me (as
>> 
>> Now.  Is the drive truly dead?  (Did I damage it or something?).  Or did I
>>  plug it in the wrong slot upon replugging everything back in after
>>  adding my SIMMs?  I am fairly certain that it was in the slot labelled
>>  "lower drive", and that the slot labelled "upper drive" was empty.  That's
>>  how it is now, but the drive is dead.  And I'm afraid of just wantonly
>>  switching to the other slot.  After all, my *hard drive* is in the "upper"
>>  hole (physically) of my Mac.  Perhaps I plugged the drive in *upside down*?
>>  (But wouldn't that create a huger stir than simple non-existence?)
>
>Well, congratulations on getting the SIMMs in their proper locations.
>About the drive...well, this happened to me also.  No sweat.  (For me,
>anyway.)  I just plugged in the drive cable into the wrong slot.  If you
>noticed when you took out the motherboard, there are two places the
>drive cable can go in.  Stick it in the other.
>The other possiblility is that some other cable to it is not
>well-connected.  This happened to one of the monitors I was checking out
>(in an SE).  It came on-and-off at random intervals, at least that is
>what it seemed like to me.  Anyway, I just took out the casing and
>played with the cables for a while and everything was cool!

Do make sure that your cable is fully connected--recently I upgraded an SE to
2.5mb, booted it, and everything was fine.  Later I inserted a floppy, and
the problems started!  The SE ejected the floppy and then gave the message
"Can't read this floppy, do you wish to initialize" (roughly).  If I said OK
or Cancel, the dialog would go away for a while (5 seconds or so) and then 
come up again.  If I reinserted the floppy and hit OK or Cancel, the floppy
would eject and the messsage would immediately come up again.  It ended up
being that the floppy cable was a little loose.  I pushed it fully into the
socket, and volia! no more floppy messages!

  Mark