The green screen is fairly logical, as Amiga's won't start without ChipRAM The 4000 doesn't need a battery to work, mine's never had one (I got the guy I bought it off to remov…

I'll try right now.

First get a complete backup. Then defragment the disk in case it's that. Then we need to get you a competent formatter that will test and map out sector defects and update the fa…

First get a complete backup. Then defragment the disk in case it's that. Then we need to get you a competent formatter that will test and map out sector defects and update the fa…

I just found this article. It says at the end that the Quadra 700 has a flashing question mark problem. Anybody know about that?

During a previous career in broadcast television back in the early 1990s, I sat in on an Avid demonstration, and I recall our station's chief engineer inquiring about the price, be…

Shall I break out the 1995/1996 issues of MacWorld and start price checking?

Bunsen - those little ridges on the bottom right hand corner slide to the right. You will probably have to apply more force than you like. Press inward and out to the right with yo…

In your position I might bust out Hard Disk Speed Tools and see if it could help(it has helped a few times in the past with HDs and my CD-RW).Were the old versions of Disk Warrior …

I have bad news. The Quadra 700 can't boot up with SCSI Manager 4.3 even without the Zip Drive connected. The thing is that the macintosh is rocksolid when actually working with no…

In your position I might bust out Hard Disk Speed Tools and see if it could help(it has helped a few times in the past with HDs and my CD-RW). Were the old versions of Disk Warrio…

Well, looking at the history thread to which you directed me, that Quadra has an attitude. Until you have a data backup maybe it would be better if all further rescue attempts be …

I ran Disk First Aid on the HD. Here are the results. Code: Checking disk “Macintosh HD”. Checking disk volume. Checking extent BTree. Checking extent file. Checking catalo…

I was able to regain my stability by: 1.Disabling SCSI Manager 4.3 and restarting 2.Updating the HD Driver using the Patched HD SC Setup 3.Restarting with All Extensions Enabled…

Duh, I should have added Apple's Disk First Aid to the list, it fixes things that Norton Utilities does not. I have updated drivers using Apple's Setup tool, and even MacOS versio…

Will it manually mount from SCSI Probe 4.3? Click to expand... No. Norton Utilities, also any other boot startup, if you can get them to see it, then designate HD as sta…

Some things to try... Will it manually mount from SCSI Probe 4.3? Norton Utilities, also any other boot startup, if you can get them to see it, then designate HD as startup disk …

IT DOESN'T MOUNT!!!! I can probe it, and it even shows me the name of the disk that's in it (which is now HFS so it should work.) Plus it's bringing back that not-being-able-to-do…

Couldn't you theoretically find a wall wart with the right voltage, hack some metal pads, and stuff the pads onto the contacts of the PB100? Probably screw some serious stuff up if…

Re: battery - will do. I'm thinking an SMD NiMH charger IC and a home made AAA NiMH pack. That or finding the smallest lead acid I can. BTW first hurdle - how do you get the bat…

Updating the hard disk driver got it through startup - with SCSI Manager 4.3! But the disk won't mount? Oh my?… I think the disks might be HFS+ :I

Yeah, they're neat little beasties. I prefer the keyboard on these to the Duos. I personally have three or four of the 100s, but only one works. Two have some random problem that I…

Are you by any chance using some bizarre CD ROM drive that requires a driver? I have a 12x Pioneer CDROM drive that will not mount disks without a driver. It's possible that yo…

Are you by any chance using some bizarre CD ROM drive that requires a driver? I have a 12x Pioneer CDROM drive that will not mount disks without a driver. It's possible that yo…

SCSI Manager 4.3, just Google it, lots of info, in particular see http://db.tidbits.com/issue/251 which mentions the requirement for a "SCSI Manager 4.3 compatible hard disk driver…