prophet@oxy.edu (Dale Bruce LaFountain) (09/21/90)
Hi all. I just returned to school down here in LA. In doing so I shipped 7 boxes containing my GS and hard drive (POWERDrive 105meg). When I re-assembled everything and borrowed a monitor (I think they lost mine in transit) I found out that my HD didn't work. I tried to boot it, and to look at the contents via Prosel, but it just wasn't registering. When I cracked open the box with the CPU, I had to reseat my TransWarp GS, as it had worked its way out of the slot, and a little silver box in the top rear of the TWGS had fallen halfway out of its socket. So I reseated that, checked the rest of the rest of the cards (Apple DMA SCSI and Apple 1 meg expansion RAM) and all seemed fine, with no visible scratches/wounds. BTW, I did all this before I turned on the computer. I could boot any GS/OS application from my 3.5, but no Prodos 8 applications would work. It just hangs right after the Prodos version and copyright flashes up. At first I thought my TransWarp was to blame. So I pulled it and re-installed my stock processor, but then the computer wouldn't even boot up. Not even the 'Apple ][gs' at the top. So I put the TWGS back in and pulled the DMA SCSI, and everything works fine. So my question is, which part is screwed: my DMA SCSI or my HD? I don't have any way to check the HD on another GS, because no one at my school has a DMA SCSI or HD. I guess I could plug the drive into any 'ol Macintosh around here to see if it works, but I don't want to erase everything if I don't have to (90 megs takes a while to restore :). Can I verify that my HD is indeed functional without reformatting it on a Mac? My only other choice seems to be taking it to the Apple dealer, but I don't have the time or the money to deal with that, since this is all UPS's fault. I need to file a damage claim, but I don't know exactly what is messed up. Someone please help, as I am in dire straits (and not the rock group). All of my work is on my HD, and I have a full backup right here, but it's all compressed, thanks to Prosel. Thanks in advance, Dale LaFountain prophet@oxy.edu