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Quadra 800 is blind and cant see the HD

Quadra 800 is blind and cant see the HD Hardware 4 posts Nov 2, 2007 — Nov 2, 2007

#1 Fri, 2 Nov 2007 - 11:58

Hi,

My Quadra 800 has been rather grumpy lately. It cmae ut with the blinking question mark, and I put in the disk tools disk. It found the drive, and I reblesed the system folder, and restarted. It worked. But whenever you restart from that HD or shut down, the quadra cant see the HD.

I am guseeing it is the PRAM battery.

Thanks,

Macintoshman

#2 Fri, 2 Nov 2007 - 12:24

Run Norton Disk Doctor?

#3 Fri, 2 Nov 2007 - 16:25

Could be the HD takes too long to spin up, or is set to not spin up untill it gets the OK from the SCSI bus?

Some drives have a jumper for auto startup so it spins up when it gets power.

#4 Fri, 2 Nov 2007 - 22:20

I fixed it. I rebuilt the desktop and scanned with Norton disk doctor. Thanks for the help.