* From: Richard Starr
* Subject: Re: Acard ATA 133 card
* Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 09:00:17 -0800
>>>>--- You wrote:
>>>>Hi Len & all listers;
>>>>To run a HDD through an ATA card you must format the drive through the ATA
>>>>card. I've been doing some reading on this as I'm thinking about getting an
>>>>ATA card for my Beige G3DT 266. HTH
>>>>--Thanks; Rev. George
>>>>--- end of quote ---
>>>Yes, that's one of the disadvantages of these boards. The system
>>>sees them as
>>>scsi. You can't just take a drive off the native ata bus and hang
>>>it on the ATA
>>>card (not most of them anyway.) You need to reformat it. A bit
>>>time consuming
>>>and messy.
> >>In a message dated 11/19/02 7:23:06 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> >><<
>>>At least someone tried to do this for the good of the list.
> >>>>
>
>All the required drivers are there as separate resources.
>
>There has to be a special indicator somewhere, posssibly in the first
>resource, of which resource to use for booting this specific drive.
>
>Remember, ADTX didn't have any problem with its card, so it MUST be possible
>to make the others work, too.
>
This seems to me to be a driver issue.
I have moved a 60 gig Maxtor drive from a Firewire case to the
internal IDE bus of my Beige MT and then onto a VST 66 PCI/IDE card without any
loss of data or having to reformat the drive at each step.
The secret..............
Hard Disk Speed Tools from Intech USA!
I was having problems with the drive in a Firewire case that was connected to
a Firewire PCI card installed in a 7500. Anytime the 7500 would crash
and have to be hard booted there would be a lot of directory damage.
After one crash the damage was so bad that Diskwarrior could not
repair the drive and upon subsequent restarts the Mac would ask me if
I wanted to initialize the disk, which of course I didn't.
I didn't have any way to recover the files on the 7500 so I moved the drive to
my Beige G3 connecting it in place of my CDRW. I was all set to
recover the data to
a second drive (all 32+gigs of it ugh!) when I thought I would try
and mount the drive. So I started up HDST (which I had used to format
the drive while it was in the FireWire Case) and no luck the drive
won't mount but HDST presents me with a dialog box that reads...
"this drive is formatted to run on a different interface,c in order to use
the drive you should reload the driver and restart your computer"
......so
I hit the button, load the driver, restart the Mac and CHA-CHING!!!
There sit's the drive on my desktop with all of the files intact and
functioning perfectly!
With that success under my belt I installed the VST card into the
Beige and hung the drive off of it. Once started up I again run HDST
and get the same dialog box as before. I update the driver and BAM! I
don't even have to restart the drive is right there on the desktop!!!
I moved the VST card and the 60 gig drive back to the 7500 where it
has been running without incident for several months now.
Since that time I have used HDST to move several other drives onto
both VST and Acard
PCI/IDE cards without any problems.
Hope this information can help someone else avoid having to do the
whole backup and reformat mambo.
--
Aloha, Ken
"Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake
when you make it again." -- F. P. Jones
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