PB1400 Hard Drive(?) Issue

[PackingTape]

Recently I installed a new hard drive in the 1400, a generic PC 40GB one. Installing OS9 worked. The disk tools complained that the drive had encryption enabled (definitely false ) but still formatted the disk, and OS9 ran fine for a while. Now though, it won't boot, giving the "unimplemented trap" bomb on startup. I've reset the PMU and the PRAM, and tried starting up with extensions off, all to no avail. Any ideas? Is it likely that this stuff happened because of the non-apple HD? I have some vague idea that the drive firmware might need apple-ification, but I could be totally full of crap. I need to fix it, though---I love my 1400, and it is my work computer!

 

[ClassicHasClass]

The *size* might be the problem -- the PB1400 controller can't cope with partitions over 8.2GB. This is allegedly smoothed over in 8.6 and 9 but I would strongly advise partioning it and reformatting it, at a minimum making the boot partition 8GB or less and seeing how it copes with that. You might consider splitting it into 5 portions to make all partitions under that size.

If that doesn't fix it, I suspect hardware. The fact the drive is non-Apple has nothing to do with it; my own 1400 has a Toshiba OEM hard disk. But it's only 4GB

 

[Strimkind]

I have a 10GB Toshiba drive in my Powerbook 1400c without any problems. It duel boots 8.6 and 9.1 with no issue on either end. I believe the current drive was pulled from a dead Sony laptop.

I think the 40GB issue has less to do with the size and more to do with the fact it is an ATA-5 unit that I believe is not compatible with the drive controller on the Powerbook 1400. Try another drive and see if it does it as well.

 

[ClassicHasClass]

I'm pretty sure that ATA-5 is okay, it's ATA-6 that blows up (but I'm working off my faulty recollection here).

 

[PackingTape]

It works now! Reinstalling the OS fixed it. I still have no idea how the problem happened though. Thanks for your help!

 

[LCGuy]

Hmm, I have a 30GB Hitachi TravelStar in my 1400, its partitioned into 3 volumes: an 8GB with OS 9.1, a 2GB with 7.6.1, and the rest as storage. Never had a problem with it - except the whole issue with the fact that using a drive bigger than 4GB in SCSI Disk Mode is a Very, Very, Very, Very BAD Thing.