Subject: Re: mac IIci (again!) serious (possibly fatal) problems :(
To: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
From: ayeats <ayeats@ne.mediaone.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/17/1999 13:45:03
Thanks for the advice,
However I figured out the problem. The ram simms were in the wrong place.
They were mainly in Bank B. I just read that bank A is used for vram.
Since there was no ram there, the built in video could not display
anything. It is fine now though, Thanks anyway!
-Andrew
>A corrupted partition map will cause the machine to fail to boot. Of
>course, no partition map at all is fine; that's what you expect to be
>on a brand new drive--but if this drive has DOS, or otherwise bogus
>partitons on it, it could do as you describe.
>
>You need to try a low-level format on the new, old drive. This
>presents a catch-22, in that you can't boot at all with that drive
>attached. You might try first booting from a floppy containing a
>minumum system and the formatting utility, and then plugging in the
>drive. (I would do scsi first, then power.) It's a bit riskier to boot
>from another drive, since in that case, if the scsi bus locks up, the
>mac will appear to hang, and you won't then be able to access the
>formatter's menus to unlock the bus. A low-level format can also be
>done on a PC.
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