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From: gabe@ctr.columbia.edu (Gabe Wiener)
Subject: Re: Hard drive not recognized
Message-ID: <1991Mar31.074218.26020@ctr.columbia.edu>
Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research
References: <1991Mar31.042742.8553@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 91 07:42:18 GMT

In article <1991Mar31.042742.8553@midway.uchicago.edu> keho@quads.uchicago.edu (david kehoe) writes:
>My mom just called -- she turned on her SE/30 and it is unaware
>that it has a hard drive.  Starts just fine off a floppy system
>disk though.  Her SE/30 has a 40 meg internal hard drive.
>When she clicks "Restart", the orange light on the front flashes
>very faintly for an instant, then doesn't light up again.

Try running one of the common SCSI utilities to see if the drive is even
appearing on the bus.  If it is, can it be mounted manually?  A new driver
installation might be in order.

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