That would be death chimes and I'm afraid it's a truly bad thing. It 
means that the mac found out that an important piece of hardware 
isn't working while doing POST (Power On Self Test. Yup, Macs do that 
to. They just aren't as in your face about it as PCs). It could be 
something as bad as dead chip on the motherboard or something small 
like bad RAM or even a really mangled scsi or floppy cable (I've seen 
cables do it but only once). Unless it's the RAM or a cable I'm 
afraid the computer's dead. Sorry.

Best of luck with the PPC.


>At some point in the past few days my mac68k NetBSD 1.5 on a 660av crashed.
>The funny tunes and drum rolls after the startup sound type of crashed.
>I spent about three hours trying to recover and then realized that it
>was futile. And given the age and speed of the equipment, I decided 
>to abandon it.
>
>As such I will most likely unsubscribe from this list as I no longer have
>a working 68k mac. I was moving toward using a MacPPC NetBSD 1.5.1 setup on
>a PowerMacintosh 6500/300, but I had hoped to make a smooth well planned
>transition. Instead I'm barely running well enough to email this.
>
>In any case I had moved my tape drive over to the new system, thus losing
>the ability to do back ups for the last week. I was going
>to change to start using the new system as the server but haven't
>configured that.
>
>If anyone is in upstate New York (Capital District/Saratoga Area) and
>wishes to own two Quadra 660av's with not quite enough working part they
>are welcome to them.
>
>I'd also like to know if it is possible to recover any of the data 
>on the hard disk. It had a tiny mac partition, and the NetBSD 
>partitions. I could not get it recognized.
>
>Is there a guide to all the "tunes" a 660av plays on failure. The 
>first time it I became aware it played sort of a jazz riff after the 
>startup sound. After I started taking things out, it would play all 
>kinds of different noises.
>
>--
>josh kuperman
>josh@ssimr.com
>http://www.ssimr.com - hopefully up later today or tomorrow.
>
>PS I haven't even put emacs on this yet and vi is driving me crazy.

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