se/30 disk weirdness

From: Eric Chomko <chomko_at_greenbelt.com>
Date: Wed Apr 25 21:36:10 2001

Try zapping the PRAM the next to you power the system up. I forget
the exact keys to press when booting.

Eric

"r. 'bear' stricklin" wrote:

> I brought home an external FDHD for my SE/30 last night, to facilitate
> retrocomputing tasks. Plugged it in, switched on the Mac, tested it out,
> shut the Mac down, and unplugged the disk.
>
> Now, when the external drive is unplugged, the system somehow still thinks
> it's there.
>
> I get a disk icon with an "x" in it at boot as it tries to boot from this
> external drive which is not there and finds (surprise!) no system folder
> on the disk.
>
> The system then goes on to boot more-or-less normally from the internal
> SCSI disk.
>
> Once finder starts loading, I get a dialog box that (depending) says one
> of two things:
>
> "This disk cannot be read by this Macintosh. (Eject) (Initialize)" with
> the icon indicating the (non-present) external floppy.
>
> ~or~
>
> "Initialization faild: disk is locked. (OK)"
>
> Dismissing these dialogs result in processing resuming normally for a
> second or two, and then another identical dialog being thrown up. Repeat
> ad infinitum, et ad nauseam.
>
> The internal disk drive continues to work normally (within the above
> constraints).
>
> As soon as I reconnect the external disk drive, everything is happy again.
>
> As soon as I disconnect it... bang. Nose demons.
>
> I am utterly baffled. What's wrong? How do I fix it?
>
> ok
> r.
Received on Wed Apr 25 2001 - 21:36:10 BST