Lost contact with my master disk!

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Lost contact with my master disk!

I use the X and Os 9 on two separate disks on a G4 dual 533. I was using the X and choose the Os 9 as the start-up disk. When I rebooted the little floppy disk with the question mark appeared. I booted on an Os 9 CD and found out that my Os 9 Master disk was missing. I turned of the damn thing and opened it, pressed the little reset button on the motherboard for 20 sec. Turned on the machine and ‘voila’, my disk was a live and kicking again.
This has happened one time before, when I was moving the computer to another location.

Why does this happen ???
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As long as it doesnt happen regulary -------> Never mind!:)

Once my Mac didn't even "bong" at startup. In the morning he did but in the afternoon... nothing! At the end I threw everything but the motherboard out and back in! Then it worked!:) :mad: :confused: :confused: :confused: :D :o
 
Maybe a cable got knocked semi-loose -- I've got two hard drives hooked up to the on-board ATA bus (one master, one slave) and the slave's connection seems to get loose -- even come out of the hard drive -- if I open the case more than a few times. One time my hard drive didn't show up, so I opened the case and that damn ATA cable going to the slave drive was just hanging out... grrr...

Also, about the "bongs" at startup -- I find that certain RAM configurations will disable this on my machine for some reason. I've got 768MB of RAM in right now -- 2x256, 2x128. With that config, my machine "bongs" at startup/restart. I've got another 256 MB stick here, and if I plop that one in, hence 3x256 and 1x128, the machine doesn't "bong" on startup nor restart. Weird. No amount of PRAM zapping or RAM-module-slot-rearranging will bring back the "bong" with my 896MB installed.

It's a shame to have a "bongless" Mac... no one should be "bongless" their entire life... ;)
 
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