Hdlogicboardfailure'd!!

[hm_murdock]

Well, I wondered why my old iMac wouldn't boot. I found out why. HD logic failure.

Sux!

I'll tell more later!

[Lead Head]

that sucks, also did your space bar break?

[hm_murdock]

Nope. The spacebar on the Pro Keyboard is fine.

Here's what happens.

On the Power Mac G3 (Rev 2), on the secondary IDE channel, the drive reports as a 7.5GB EIDE device. It's actually a 20GB drive. The manufacturer is reported as "Laxltr 30049H2 B" rather than Maxtor.

In the iMac that it was pulled from, it caused the IDE channel to not read. With it out, the iMac will boot from CD.

[Lead Head]

see if you can find an identical HD from somewhere and switch the logic boards on the HDs, that should work

[Orethrius]

Hey, he should be proud, he's got a friggin LAXLTR in there!  Wow!  

[Lead Head]

i had something similar like that happen to me with a CD-rom drive, the ide cable was bad

[hm_murdock]

That was my first thought... however, it's malfunctioning in two different machines, two different cables. Even the ATA controllers are different. I'm going to try a few things today. I'll keep you posted!

[TheQuirk]

At least it got the x right.

[Lead Head]

and the A and the R

[worker201]

Is this a different issue than the graphics logic board?  Because I lost that one recently, but after the free replacement, things are just fine.  It would appear to boot, but the screen wouldn't come on.  Crazy shit, glad it got fixed for free.

[hm_murdock]

No, this is just an HD going out. The issue occurs in both the iMac, and a Power Mac G3 (blue and white).

The graphics in the iMac... no problem there. It's a slot-load, and until now, none of the slot-loads have had any failures.

[hm_murdock]

It was the jumpers. The master-only jumper was on. I removed it and now it's fine. I guess it was the IDE bus on the old iMac