OS 9.2 Expert Required

[ElijahBaley]

This is the situation,

My colleague was using her MAC when shill felt it became a bit slow as she was working with some large files in Photoshop and Illustrator, so she rebooted.

The computer did not come back up, it pauses on the smiley face gray screen (looking for finder??)

I have unplugged all external SCSI devices - still no boot

I have booted from a norton disk and run tools - no problems found

I have booted from installation disk and renamed and replaced extensions with basic set - still no boot

I have trashed finder preferences - no boot
I have replaced finder - no boot

I then deleted the system folder and ran setup from the disk and completely reinstalled the OS system from setup - no boot

I have opened the case and checked that everything is plugged in as it should be - ok

tried booting again still no luck,

Has anyone got any ideas what is wrong? - I do not think that it is a disk or driver problem as I can access the HDD when I boot from a CD..

I really am scratching my head with this and would really appreciate any advice that anyone has,

Thanks

EB

 

[jimbopalmer]

Some things I would have tried that you have not would be to update the driver on the Hard disk

go into Drive Setup (there should be a copy on the CD) and choose the drive and in the menu you can Update driver this would be similar to fdisk /mbr on a PC

Have you run Disk First Aid? It would be similar to ScanDisk on a PC (it should also be on the OS CD)

if it does not help it is time to take it to an Apple tech I tried to remain child-like, all I acheived was childish.

 

[ElijahBaley]

Thanks Jimbo,

I am starting to think that it may be related to a controller driver. This computer has 2 SCSI PCI cards installed, 1 is chained to the HDD and the other is connected to external devices (scanner,Zip,Jaz)

I tried to reinstall the driver but found that I could not remove the boot disk! - ill try your suggestions on Monday

Cheers

EB

 

[ElijahBaley]

It is definately a SCSI problem,

The disk is partitioned into 2 logical drives, I have now moved the system folder to the smaller partition and changed the system to boot from that partition no problem,

I think this has something to do with mounting drives and for whatever reason the utility that I am using to discover the logical drives on this SCSI adapter is not finding the larger partition (which I want to boot from)

any ideas anyone

Thanks

 

[jimbopalmer]

Some free SCSI tools I use

http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=3043&db=mac

http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=3935&db=mac

If the freebees can't help either, you may need a commercial product like silverlining or fwb harddisk toolkit I tried to remain child-like, all I acheived was childish.