Last week my intermittent drive problems were solved by, at end, replacing the ribbon cable. Bob At 09:28 PM 2/17/2009, you wrote: >>No It Is Not Fixed. > >Snip >You might want to try the Open Firmware resets. They often resolve >issues that are not solved by any other method. Restart the >computer. Immediately after the chime, press and hold the Option, >Command, letter "O" and letter "F" keys simultaneously until >a message appears telling you to release them. (The machine is now >booted into Open Firmware). >Then type the following lines exactly and press the return key: > >reset-nvram (hit the return key) >set-defaults (return) >reset-all (return) > >The machine will reboot normally from whatever drive you have >selected as the startup disk. If you have not reselected the startup > disk since you have been moving disks around, I would do that > also. Good luck. > >Dan T >_______________________________________________ >G4 mailing list >G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com >http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4 > >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >Version: 8.0.237 / Virus Database: 270.10.25/1957 - Release Date: >02/17/09 07:07:00 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/g4/attachments/20090218/7866a1c9/attachment-0001.html