This is House-calls-too in view mode; [Up]
Date: Sun 10-May-1991 03:44:29 From: dejnsen@caen.engin.umich.edu (Nik Anthony Gervae) Subject: House calls too! I just wanted to extend a hearty public thanks to Vidas Neverauskas, the local NeXT SE here in Ann Arbor, for helping me with my internal drive-- he took it with him and rebuilt it in one day, and when that didn't work, had a replacement ordered, and two days later came to my apartment and installed it! Now that's service! (Even if a friend says it's only because they're not popular yet. ;-) In the process of getting this mess fixed, I happened to lose some files. Could anyone send me articles 16400-16499 and 16800-16899 of this newsgroup? I'll be ever so grateful. Now I've had my second lesson in backing up early and often, even if I don't think I can afford it--I can't afford not to. And last, in article 17507, Dave Tenny wrote: >So I hooked up the DIT CubeFloppy 2.9 and installed Floppyworks. I DID >RTFM carefully before installing. The floppy drive is SCSI device 3, >and the floppy is device 0. I didn't check the OD. How do I get a list >of the SCSI device numbers to check for conflict? > >Anyway, the default (#3) for the floppy drive works, MOST OF THE TIME. >There is no on/off switch, so I just leave it plugged in all the time. >Here's the problem: the machine only boots about 50% of the time. >Sometimes it boots without a hitch. Other times it stops. >If I have the verbose ROM Monitor enabled, I see these messages like: > >sc: couldn't complete > >and then some messages about controller hangs, errors, and reboots. >Sorry, I don't have the exact text. The messages which arise in the >event of a hang are always the same. Believe it or not, I had similar problems with my PLI CD-ROM drive when the termination dipswitches were in the position labeled 'on'--Vidas told me to flip 'em all the other way and my problems vanished (not before I lost a few files due to a stupid mistake; oh well). You might want to try this if
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Marcel Waldvogel and Netfuture.ch.