I picked up a couple of powerbooks here on the trading post. both missing HDDs. imagine that. one i knew about, one i DIDNT know about.
Regardless, i picked up another parts machine on ebay that had a bad screen.
HDD was present, an 80mb IBM drive.
I removed the HDD and tried it in both the powerbooks I have, the 160 and 165.
Problem seems to be when connected, the drive spins up, you can hear the head seek during its normal power on sequence and then the computer just gets stuck at the gray screen wtih mouse curser. Never freezes, i can move the mouse. but its "frozen". hard to explain.
If i connect an external CDROM up to the powerbook SCSI port, the system will now boot up just fine. but HD SC setup does not recognize the drive.
and then the disk first aid sees a "unknown disk" with a floppy icon. strange....
There isnt a "click of death" as in a head crash. it seeks perfectly fine when first spun up. but the computer just doesnt "like" the drive or its SCSI configs.
Regardless, i picked up another parts machine on ebay that had a bad screen.
HDD was present, an 80mb IBM drive.
I removed the HDD and tried it in both the powerbooks I have, the 160 and 165.
Problem seems to be when connected, the drive spins up, you can hear the head seek during its normal power on sequence and then the computer just gets stuck at the gray screen wtih mouse curser. Never freezes, i can move the mouse. but its "frozen". hard to explain.
If i connect an external CDROM up to the powerbook SCSI port, the system will now boot up just fine. but HD SC setup does not recognize the drive.
and then the disk first aid sees a "unknown disk" with a floppy icon. strange....
There isnt a "click of death" as in a head crash. it seeks perfectly fine when first spun up. but the computer just doesnt "like" the drive or its SCSI configs.