Re: Hard Disk Problem?

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From: Christopher Chow
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1987 01:42

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In article <7040@dartvax.UUCP> boz@dartvax.UUCP (John Boswell) writes:
>	If I turn on my Mac Plus w/o turning on the harddisk, the screen 
>comes on, but as soon as it is done with its 'memory test" (or whatever),
>instead of getting the expected Mac icon in the center, the screen just
>goes black, and I get nothing.  This is with or w/o a disk in the internal

Is your Mac Plus one of the first units?  A bug in the original 128K ROM
prevents the Mac Plus to boot if it has an SCSI device attached to the SCSI
bus and the device is off.

Christopher Chow
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From: chow@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow)
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Subject: Re: Hard Disk Problem?
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Date: Tue, 15-Sep-87 21:42:46 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 15 21:42:46 1987
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