v084l3m2@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Thomas A Gardner) (02/04/91)
I have a 40meg CMS external hard drive hooked up to a Mac Classic. About 1 out of 3 times when I go to turn on the mac it locks up at the "Welcome to Macintosh" screen. I have tried Zaping the Ram, Re-formating, Re-installing the system I even had the HD replaced with another CMS 40Meg HD. I called CMS and they sent me another formating Disk. That didn't work. Now they tell me that they are working on the problem. If anyone has any idea what the problem might be please post some solutions. Tom
rsherman@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (Roby Sherman) (02/05/91)
In <57658@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> v084l3m2@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Thomas A Gardner) writes: > I have a 40meg CMS external hard drive hooked up to a > Mac Classic. About 1 out of 3 times when I go to turn > on the mac it locks up at the "Welcome to Macintosh" screen. > I have tried Zaping the Ram, Re-formating, Re-installing the system > I even had the HD replaced with another CMS 40Meg HD. > I called CMS and they sent me another formating Disk. > That didn't work. Now they tell me that they are working > on the problem. > If anyone has any idea what the problem might be please > post some solutions. It sounds to me like your System File is corrupted. I do see that you used the installer, but the installer doesn't always fix the system.. It could still be corrupted.. Did you try DELETING the system file and then use the installer? That SHOULD take care of the problem. Let me know... --Robes -- Roby Sherman | "Strange things are afoot at the Circle K" -- Bill & Ted //Interealm\\ |------------------------------------------------------------- P.O. box 63-04 | Internet : rsherman@mthvax.cs.miami.edu Miami, Fl. 33163 --------------------------------------------------------------
rsherman@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (Roby Sherman) (02/05/91)
Ooops... What I meant to ask was : When you "reformat" your hard drive, are you then copying your old system back or are you totally re-installing it fresh from your System Tools Disk? It is also a possiblity that your CMS driver is incompatible. (mine was, I seem to remember, and I ended using Uni-Mac to install it's driver) let me know.. -- RS -- Roby Sherman | "Strange things are afoot at the Circle K" -- Bill & Ted //Interealm\\ |------------------------------------------------------------- P.O. box 63-04 | Internet : rsherman@mthvax.cs.miami.edu Miami, Fl. 33163 --------------------------------------------------------------