PowerBook 180c - Hard Drive Issue

[Scott Baret]

My new 180c has a hard drive issue...

The 160MB drive that came with the computer developed a clicking problem (the same thing that plagued my iBook G4's drive right before it died). I figured I could swap it with the drive from my 170, since I am no longer using it with the 180c around.

The 170's drive worked fine the last time I had it on a few months ago. Now it won't mount and Silverlining 5.5 is finding a ton of "compare errors" on the drive.

My questions:

1. Is there any way I can repair this drive as far as the errors go? (It's still on its second round of tests as I type this)

2. Is there any sort of adapter I can get to run an IDE drive from this computer?

3. Is it possible that the drive isn't reading right because of fingerprints on the ribbon cable connecting the drive to the logic board?

4. If anyone has a spare working SCSI drive, would it be possible to PM me so we could work out a deal?

 

[Scott Baret]

NEVER MIND...I figured it out...

As with anything SCSI, it was a problem related to termination. The internal drive wasn't reading because the last drive in my external chain (my external 160MB LaCie and a CD-ROM drive) wasn't terminated...

I booted from my Disk Tools disk but swapped Silverlining for Disk First Aid and Apple HD SC Setup. All of my other SCSI devices were disconnected.

The drive formatted fine and is booting from the Mini System Folder as we speak. It will receive a fresh copy of 7.1 in a few minutes.

It's only a 40MB drive but at least it works well...it will be plenty big enough to hold the apps I'm using (Word 5.1, Excel 4.0) and some files.