[Pc_Support] Need a MAC hardware garu!

[Homer Whittaker]

One of my sons is as rabid a Mac person as some our people are about 
Linux.  He wants to   give me one of his machines so that I can attempt 
to install Debian on the Mac machine (I understand that the Mac has a 
program that will allow them to use Windows XX.  If it can be made to 
work this would be the most of the utmost to me.

The main problem at hand is the his Mac will not read his SCSI hard 
drive, and it will not read the Western Digital IDE drives I have put on 
it either.  So:

1.  Can anyone make suggestions/recommendations as to fixing the Mac 
hardware ( I replaced cables and attempted all the possible PC repairs I 
know of).
2.  If it can be repaired, then how do I go about installing Debian on 
the Mac.  Do not recall any discussions or methodology on this  topic.

It seem to me that a Mac, with Debian and Windows XX all on one machine 
would be the most of the utmost!