Bruce McIntyre wrote: > > I am continuing to have frustration with my internal hard disk (7300, > Quantum Fireball 2.1) I decided to this time mash Apple OS > altogether, and so gave mac-fdisk the 'i' command to write a new > patition map. I was suspecting that the apple patch and driver 43 > patitions were causing the scsi error 80000000 that I was getting > with my previous installs. The initialisation went fine (fdisk > prompts you to enter the block size of the disk, which I got from > first giving it the 'p' command---it returns a size 1 block less than > that given by dmesg). I wrote in some partitions. 32M Root, 32M swap, > 100M var, 500M home and the rest usr. when I gave mac-fdisk the 'w' > command (to write the new patition table) it freaked out and gave me > something like (copied by hand from screen): > Kernel access of bad area pc c0206808 lr c0205a70 address 4 task mac-fdisk 44 > it then panicked and all consoles froze as it attempted reboot (which > never eventuated). > > Now I cannot reinstall a working Mac system on the disk to start the > debian tranistion--- it formats ok with the apple Drive Setup > utillity, but refuses to make the disk bootable with the startup disk > control panel (system writes to it ok in the install program). > while the startup control panel indicates it is the boot disk, at > boot i dont get anything, only grey... not even the disk icon. > to boot again from cd, i have to erase the pram, and then reboot with > c and d held down. after a minute or two of indecision it boots, and > mounts the drive fine, with the system on it and still indicating > that it is the boot disk. > The drive is on the mesh bus at id 1. (I have been trying different > ids to get debian without scsi errors to no avail) > Is my computer cursed? > Probably not.
I have a 7300 and it's a good machine, but it's hard drive is starting to go bad on one sector. I'm going to have to get a new drive. You might try that too. Here's some other things to try: Remove and reinstall the memory modules and cpu board Unplug each connector and reinstall them; like the scsi cables, power cables, etc) Check the power output of the power supply with a voltage meter (buy a power extender and cut and strip the cable to attach the meter clips) Sorry, don't know which wires to check... Kicking it a couple times might help... ;) Hope this helps, Mike
