Re: Recovering HD partition map...

[jchappel@tyrell.net (Jeanne Chappell)]

nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates) writes:

>This happened to me today; any help would be appreciated.

>   Opening up my system, I played around with the 2 devices on it:
>Maxtor 235MB HD (id=4) and Floptical (ID=3).

>   With just the floptical connected, its light never goes off, which
>seem to indicate that it's having problems with things. This happens
>when its connected and not, if a disk is in it (it makes the right
>clicking noises, but still does nothing) or not, and if termination
>is on or not from the RamFAST

I recently had a problem with my floptical drive.  I have a RamFast card
and have operated with no problems with the following devices chained in
the given order:

     hard drive (no internal termination)
     floptical  (no internal termination)
     tape drive (with internal termination)

Everything worked fine- then one day my system would not recognize my floptical.
When I would place a disk in the floptical drive the drive light would
come on and the drive would spin away - trying to recognize the disk.

After hours of messing around I finally changed the order of my SCSI chain to:

       floptical
       hard drive
       tape drive

and things have been working great since.  Why?  I don't know.

 
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