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WideGlide wrote:
Quick question..... just tried to turn my Mac on, and instead of getting the
little smiling face while it's booting up, I get a picture of a floppy disc
with a flashing question mark over it.... and it remains this way. Turned
it off and tried to restart it about 5 times, same thing every time. Can
anyone give me any insight as to what is going on here? Computer has been
running fine for months, and I have not altered anything at all in a very
long time. There is really no reason for anything to not be working
correctly, unless there was some sudden failure. Please don't tell me that
my hard drive just died. Any help appreciated. wg

It can't find the hard drive.

This could be a bad hard drive, or a bad cable, or something else bad on
the SCSI buss screwing it up. It could even be a bad controller, though
that's the least likely of the set. Do you hear the drive spinning up and
does it sound like it normally does? Have you been hearing a warbling sound
with a lot of sidebands from the drive recently?
--scott
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