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Peter Ceresole <peter@cara.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> In article <1dbtnii.1bh2kas5wvs4cN@p16.nas1.is2.u-net.net>,
> real-address-in-sig@flur.bltigibbet (Rebecca and Rowland) wrote:
> 
> >Having said that, while it didn't give me the normal `Can't fix that
> >volume' message, it found nothing wrong with the startup volume so I'm
> >not sure if would *really* have been able to repair it.
> 
> I'm just having an interesting time in some circumstances *finding* the
> startup volume. I have two partitions, 'HD' and 'Lenin' (don't ask).

Tsk!  The only question is why you have a volume called HD.  Isn't
having eccentric disc names one of the joys of having a Mac?  I've got
Schr�dinger's cat, Astrid's cat, Squeaky mouse, and Ball of string on my
desktop at the moment.

[snip]
> These ATA drives seem to be less
> friendly than SCSI all round; a pity that Apple had to use them to get the
> cost down- at least I presume that's the reason. 

One would hope so.

[snip]

> Any thoughts on mounting these ATA drives after booting from the SCSI Zip?
> A forlorn hope? Or is my system just being erratic?

It sounds like erratic behaviour to me, and most unwelcome.  I've no
experience at all with IDE drives on Macs, so the only thing I can
suggest is maybe zapping the PRAM.

Rowland.

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