Re: Recovering HD partition map...

[fmlin@icicle.winternet.com (Frank M. Lin)]

In article <37cvgs$svu@gap.cco.caltech.edu>,
Nathan Mates <nathan@cco.caltech.edu> wrote:
>This happened to me today; any help would be appreciated.
>
>   It seems as if something's happened to my scsi chain. At first, I
>couldn't boot; the RF/SCSI (Rev C, Rom 3.01a) simply complained about
>a 'incompatible config data' with no devices online. Pushing cables
>around to make sure things were connected yielded me two boots
>apparently at random; they both ended with a $0027 error (I/O error)
>at various places in the boot process.

I think cable/termination is bad some where.

>   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 have a floptical too, if the floptical access light stays on when you
power up the IIgs, it seems to indicate termination power is supplied
(from my experience).

>   With just the HD connected, the RamFAST seems to have lost all of
>the partition info, which I'm most concerned about. There are no
>partitions in the slot/drive list, and going to SCSI utils gives me
>following info:

I have seen this before, I'd have to say it's more like cabling...  Might
wanna try to borrow some cables.

> [..] RamFAST snap shots deleted...

>  I'd much, much rather prefer to restore data than reformat
>everything (can you say 'no backup of recent projects'?). Any help
>would be much appreciated.

Don't reformat until you try everything.  :-) 

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