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Article #21519Re: Need help with MAC II....HELP!
From: martyl
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1987 01:51
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1987 01:51
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Well after about a week I got LOTS of help from all of you out there on
USENET and I would like to extend my thanks.
To summarize my problem the ram cache on my Mac II got set to 750K and the
control panel would not let me open the control panel again to turn it off.
Also with a 750K cache there was no room for any application to run.
The final solution was:
Hold down "command", "option" and "shift" while opening the control panel.
Then I reset the "pram". Things still didn't work so I rebooted. Now the
hard disk would not boot. A total reload from the backup disks using HD
Backup did not work. The disk was initialized and reloaded.....now the moment
of truth.....the smile mac came up and then the system proceeded to trash the
disk. I then initialized the disk AGAIN. Now the HD 40 boots!!! A reload
from floppy and all data was recovered.
Lesson learned: 1) Don't mess with things just for kicks.
2) Backups are very important.
3) The APPLE manuals that come with the Mac II are very
basic and inadequaate.
4) Some people (me) just never learn :-)
--
tektronix!reed!omen!bucket!martyl (Marty Lee)
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!martyl From: martyl@bucket.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Need help with MAC II....HELP! Message-ID: <588@bucket.UUCP> Date: Wed, 11-Nov-87 20:51:50 EST Article-I.D.: bucket.588 Posted: Wed Nov 11 20:51:50 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 14-Nov-87 14:34:45 EST Organization: Rick's Home-Grown UNIX; Portland, OR. Lines: 25 Summary: How I fixed it