6600pete@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (GurgleKat [Pete Gontier]) (03/20/90)
We were formatting a Mac II's internal SCSI drive when the formatter
crashed. Apparently this caused track 0 to be garbaged. The theory
goes that the garbage, instead of looking like nonsense and being rejected
by the startup process, actually looks OK and gets loaded and proceeds
to write strange values to RAM. This causes a Sad Mac Error. Subsequently,
the drive will not mount and the machine won't start up, because SCSI drives
are queried for driver info even before floppies are used to boot.
Anybody run into this before? Any obvious ways out besides taking the drive
to our local radio station and degaussing it? :-)
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