3XMQGAA@CMUVM.BITNET (Sari Khoury) (01/16/91)
Yesterday, I reformatted my harddisk (nothing better to do), and partitione d it into 2 40 meg partitions (an 80 meg Quantum drive) with Alliance Power Too ls. Then I reistalled System 6.0.5 from my dist. disks and everyhing worked fin e. Today, I turned it on, and I got the smiley face, then a blinking dialog box ! I have seen this before but never at startup. I have no funny inits, just ATM 2.0, and Disk Doubler 3.0 Init... Any help? I am also looking for the schematics to build an AppleTalk box, if it is legal that is... Thank you. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ::Sari Khoury Art Department :: ::3XMQGAA@CMUVM.BITNET Central Michigan University:: :: Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859 USA :: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
woods@convex.com (Darrin Woods) (01/17/91)
In article <91015.1506133XMQGAA@CMUVM.BITNET> 3XMQGAA@CMUVM.BITNET (Sari Khoury) writes: > > Yesterday, I reformatted my harddisk (nothing better to do), and partitione >d it into 2 40 meg partitions (an 80 meg Quantum drive) with Alliance Power Too >ls. Then I reistalled System 6.0.5 from my dist. disks and everyhing worked fin >e. Today, I turned it on, and I got the smiley face, then a blinking dialog box >! I have seen this before but never at startup. I have no funny inits, just >ATM 2.0, and Disk Doubler 3.0 Init... Any help? > >::Sari Khoury Art Department :: By blinking dialog box - do you mean one like a 'bomb' box that blinks very quickly? If so, I would say that there is a SCSI problem. If you didn't do anything different to any SCSI device other than remformat I would say, 'That's damn strange'. Have you tried to boot from a floppy and what are the results? Will it mount the primary partition? If the blinking dialog box looks like a mac disk with a '?' in it, then your hard drive found the boot blocks on the HD (gave you a smiley face) and then went about trying to find the OS which it couldn't. If it will mount from a floppy, I'ld back it all off and try again. As to the Appletalk box, I don't see any legal problems from apple - Farallon may have something to say if you use their technology. As long as it is an original design I don't think anyone would care and if you can make them cheap enough but sturdy and rugged - market them! -- Senior Systems Engineer woods@convex.com Convex is not my employer-Therefore they are not responsible for what I say.