LC 575, Quadra 650: "Maxtime Cable" Message Upon Startup

In booting up a Quadra 650 or Macintosh LC 575, a message that says "Sending handshake byte in postburn. Please plug in Maxtime cable for postburn." may be generated.

This article describes how to get rid of this message.
This message occurs when the burn-in software is not erased off of the hard drive at the factory prior to shipping.

To remove the software:

1) Boot from the Disk Tools diskette or the InstallMeFirst CD.
2) Trash the files in the Startup Items folder.

Another alternative is to reinitialize the drive and reinstall system software.
Published Date: Feb 19, 2012