dejnsen@caen.engin.umich.edu (Nik Anthony Gervae) (05/10/91)
I just wanted to extend a hearty public thanks to Vidas Neverauskas, the local NeXT SE here in Ann Arbor, for helping me with my internal drive-- he took it with him and rebuilt it in one day, and when that didn't work, had a replacement ordered, and two days later came to my apartment and installed it! Now that's service! (Even if a friend says it's only because they're not popular yet. ;-) In the process of getting this mess fixed, I happened to lose some files. Could anyone send me articles 16400-16499 and 16800-16899 of this newsgroup? I'll be ever so grateful. Now I've had my second lesson in backing up early and often, even if I don't think I can afford it--I can't afford not to. And last, in article 17507, Dave Tenny wrote: >So I hooked up the DIT CubeFloppy 2.9 and installed Floppyworks. I DID >RTFM carefully before installing. The floppy drive is SCSI device 3, >and the floppy is device 0. I didn't check the OD. How do I get a list >of the SCSI device numbers to check for conflict? > >Anyway, the default (#3) for the floppy drive works, MOST OF THE TIME. >There is no on/off switch, so I just leave it plugged in all the time. >Here's the problem: the machine only boots about 50% of the time. >Sometimes it boots without a hitch. Other times it stops. >If I have the verbose ROM Monitor enabled, I see these messages like: > >sc: couldn't complete > >and then some messages about controller hangs, errors, and reboots. >Sorry, I don't have the exact text. The messages which arise in the >event of a hang are always the same. Believe it or not, I had similar problems with my PLI CD-ROM drive when the termination dipswitches were in the position labeled 'on'--Vidas told me to flip 'em all the other way and my problems vanished (not before I lost a few files due to a stupid mistake; oh well). You might want to try this if -- / Nik Gervae aka dejnsen@caen.engin.umich.edu | "It'll be finished next week, \ | CS/Linguistics stud. & NeRD at UM (go blow) | I promise!"--me | | | | | **When all else fails, bug someone who | "Just say an iguana chewed | \ knows (not me!). | up your textbook."--Jason Fox /