ian1035nr Posted February 7 Report Share Posted February 7 Howdy, everyone I’ve got a PowerBook 170 equipped with a 2.5”, V5.0 SCSI2SD drive that tends to misbehave after a system crash. I don’t get crashes very often (only when I forget to turn off extensions that are known to cause problems) but when I do, the PowerBook will no longer boot off the SCSI2SD. It sits at the floppy disk icon with a flashing question mark, and never finds a bootable system folder. I did find a work around: If I boot off a floppy disk, the SCSI2SD is visible and the PowerBook will boot from it the next time I power on the laptop. The whole thing is strange and I have no idea why it’s like this, it was never an issue with the HDD. I’d like to solve this so I don’t have to make sure I bring a bootable floppy with me every time I leave the house with my PowerBook. So if anyone has any ideas, I’m open to suggestions. the PowerBook is running Mac OS 7.6.1 and it was a clean install I performed on the 8GB SD card that came with the SCSI2SD. I configured the card to limit the partition size to 1GB. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tjjq44 Posted February 15 Report Share Posted February 15 Hi can’t tell specifically for SCSI2SD but I had encountered this issue many times in the past with real Hard disks!! Forced to boot from a floppy to make my HD bootable again... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ian1035nr Posted February 16 Author Report Share Posted February 16 Ah, beans. I was kind of hoping it was a SCSI2SD specific issue, since it'd likely either be something I can't do anything about, or requires some changes to the configuration. But if the same thing can happen with regular HDDs, then that opens up more potential causes. One of these days I'm going to try reformatting with a patched version of Apple HD SC and do a clean install to see if that helps. As of right now, the system was formatted with LIDO and restored from a backup-up image from the old drive. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
68kMLA Supporter sutekh Posted February 24 68kMLA Supporter Report Share Posted February 24 What happens if you remove the battery and power cord for 60sec? My 180c with a SCSI2SD has done this a few times and that's solved it, but I've never had to boot from floppy. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ian1035nr Posted February 24 Author Report Share Posted February 24 It still misbehaves even after trying that trick The first time it did this, I left it disconnected from any power for ~9 hours (it conked out right before work so I took out the battery and left it unplugged before leaving) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.