On Jul 30, 2005, at 2:42 AM, Darren wrote:
However, I agree that the disk driver software which was loaded on
the disk when it as initialized could be the culprit. All of these
things need to be checked.
The leap from OS6 to OS7 is more of a driver update, once you pass OS8
things are different.
I dont recommend HD SC Setup for nuking the drive and I do mean
zeroing the drive not removing the visablable partiton and
re-initalizing a new one. I do not recommend straying from apple tools
lightly nor do I recommend leaving any other formatting tool after the
job is done.
I think the extra info we now have does indicate that it's a driver
problem. I must admit that I'm very keen on completely re-formating
drives before re-using them. Although not available to everyone, I have
found that using a SCSI PCI card in a PC :-P is the best way to
re-format and verify any hard drive. I keep an old PC with a BusLogic
card for this purpose.
I have had very good success with FWB RAID tool kit sw in creating
single, mirrored, and striped partitions. However, I only use this with
non Apple drives. It works well even with OS 6.
John
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