rs4u+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Richard Siegel) (07/13/87)
THis morning, I carried my hard drive from my Mac Plus to a newly acquired Mac II. I hooked everything up, turned on the disk, waited 10 seconds, and turned on the Mac II. Whiole the Mac was booting, I moved the keyboard to a more comfortable position; in the process, the keyboard cable snagged (not my fault; I've alread shot the installer), and the keyboard got disconnected. The Mac II stopped dead in its tracks. Screen went dark, disk stopped running. So I turn everything off, reroute the cables from the keyboard, and fire everything up. No response from the hard drive. The Mac II sits there and blinks the question mark, so I stick in a floppy. The system boots; I get the floppy's icon, then I get the message: "This is not a Macintosh disk; do you want to initialize it?" After some sincere curses, I click "Cancel". I fire up the Apple HD SC Setup (I'm using HD 20SC), and initialize the hard disk. But when I quit to the Finder, the Hard drive's icon doesn't appear! So I go back intoh HD SC setup, and it says that my hard disk (SCSI 5) is not a Macintosh-format hard disk. So I carry the whole deal back to my Plus, and restore the hard disk (DiskFit is *wonderful*). Then I go back to the Mac II, hook up everything, and power on. This time, I get a System Error 33 on startup. I click Restart, and once again, my hard disk is destroyed! Why is my hard disk getting ruined?! Here's the background: Mac II with 1mb memory, one floppy drive. Apple Extended Keyboard Apple Hard Disk 20SC (platinum) set to SCSI address 5 Apple 12" monochrome monitor Apple Video Card The software: System 4.1 Finder 5.5 Hard Disk SC Setup version 1.3 I don't have any strange startup software; the only INIT I have is for LaserSpeed (a LaserWriter print spooler). I suspect that this INIT *may* have caused the system error, but why? I've since un-installed it, but I'm not especially interested in risking the information on my hard disk again. I didn't actually lose anything, since I backed up the hard drive before moving it, but it is a real inconvenience to restore a hard disk; it takes a while. Can anyone offer help? Has anyone had a similar problem? I remember hearing about problems with early hard disks on the SE; is this possibly related? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. --Rich
spector@acf3.NYU.EDU (David HM Spector) (07/14/87)
You didn't really init the disk, did you? We had that happen to a macII here, its seems that all that was needed to be done was to rewrite the driver (with the UPDATE button in the installer). Dave Spector Senior Systems Programmer GBA Computer Center New York University SPECTOR@NYU