Possible Drive Controller Failure? Would like more informed opinions please
I normally work on PC's but had a client approach me to work on a MacBook. It's a Core 2 Duo Intel hardware etc..He complained of dead battery, DVD stuck in drive, and no boot. The unit will power on with the AC adaptor plugged in and will boot to a Mac OSX install disk. Initially when I got it I booted to a Tiger install disk and ran disk utility. Found a 160GB drive that had 2 volumes on it. 1 was mountable, the other not. Tried running repair and verify on both the drive and the volume. Error I got referenced an underlying failure. I figured drive was dead or on the way. Booted into single user mode and played with some Unix commands. Still could not mount drive. So..I popped the 160GB out and popped in a 60GB known good HDD. I formatted the 60GB on my PC with NTFS. Booted to Tiger disk..Not recognized. Hmm...Used MacDrive 8 to format disk to HFS+ on my PC and popper it back in. Still doesd not recognize. Drive Utility does not even see the drive. Nor does System Profiler. At this point I just would like to know if I am looking at a failed drive controller (it is STA) or what. The DVD is not hanging off the SATA controller. It is ATA and I am not sure if the board has a dedicated chip for ATA or if it hanhgs off the SouthBridge. Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated...
Just an idea: If you can group - on the screen - the components that "come and go", then you might be able to position them in an individual panel, and make that alternatively visible and invisible. That would eliminate doing a whole lot of monkeying with component locations at runtime.
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