Re: Rev 4 mobo disk trashing mystery

[schmidtd <schmidtd@my-deja.com>]

On Apr 22, 11:38 pm, schmidtd <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:
> On Apr 22, 11:05 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:> So, just to summarize, the same procedure, same disks, same drives,
> > same controller, sam power supply--all work fine when only the main
> > board is different?
>
> Yes.  One more difference: the board I'm testing is bare naked,
> sitting on a non-conductive surface.  The parts I'm swapping in and
> out are in an Apple resting comfortably in a case.  Grounding, maybe?
Yep, that looks like the problem.  I buttoned everything back up, and
now things are looking much better.  Disks are booting, and the
keyboard is decidedly less flaky than before.  Still flaky, to be sure
- but that's the nature of this particular beast.