samx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (08/16/90)
Help! My hard disk decided to fry yesterday- an occurence I've been expecting for some time now. But what has me worried is that when the disk is connected and I try to boot the Mac, I get the "sad mac" face with the error code "000000F" "000000A" Does anyone know what this error code means? All I know is that it signifies some hardware error, but I surely hope the problem is not in my mac. With the disk unconnected, the Mac will boot fine off a floppy. Any information or comments would be most welcome!
russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) (08/16/90)
In article <5075.26c95f65@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> samx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes: >Help! My hard disk decided to fry yesterday- an occurence I've been expecting >for some time now. But what has me worried is that when the disk is connected >and I try to boot the Mac, I get the "sad mac" face with the error code >"000000F" >"000000A" Does anyone know what this error code means? All I know is that >it signifies some hardware error, but I surely hope the problem is not in my >mac. With the disk unconnected, the Mac will boot fine off a floppy. >Any information or comments would be most welcome! What is probably happening is that the mac is trying to execute the corrupt driver code contained on the drive-- since the code is corrupt, it crashes. It probably isn't anything to worry about as far as your mac goes. -- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu ][, ][+, ///, ///+, //e, //c, IIGS, //c+ --- Any questions?
tj@kona.cs.ucla.edu (Tom Johnson) (08/16/90)
In article <5075.26c95f65@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> samx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes: >Help! My hard disk decided to fry yesterday- an occurence I've been expecting >for some time now. But what has me worried is that when the disk is connected >and I try to boot the Mac, I get the "sad mac" face with the error code >"000000F" >"000000A" Does anyone know what this error code means? All I know is that >it signifies some hardware error, but I surely hope the problem is not in my >mac. With the disk unconnected, the Mac will boot fine off a floppy. >Any information or comments would be most welcome! I had the same problem a little while back with the 80Mg internal drive in an SE/30. The only way I could get it to work was to boot up the mac with a floppy, and the power cable to the hard disk disconencted. Once the mac had booted, I plugged in the hard drive power cable and ran SilverLining. All I had to do to fix it was re-install the SilverLining drivers. Tom -- Tom Johnson UCLA Computer Science Department 3413 Boelter Hall, Los Angeles CA 90024 (213)825-6952 Internet: tj@cs.ucla.edu