Richard Starr wrote: > I decided to move the Maxtor 80 to the Acard to increase its speed, especially > for copying video files (huge) from the other 80. I set it up as slave to the > other 80 and now see lockups in os 10.2.3. The whole system locks, not just a > force quitable application. Also when cold booting into 9.2.2, neither of the > drives on the Acard appears, even in System Profiler. The card is there, but no > drives. They work fine afer a warm reboot. > > The Maxtor 80, set up as master on the other connector on the Acard is not > recognized at all. > > In all cases the slave/master jumpers on the drive are set correctly. > > When I moved the Maxtor from the native ata to the Acard, I replaced the drivers > with HDST (version 3.5), using 'take over drive' though I now see it would have > been simpler to ask HDST to mount the thing and let it just replace the drivers > (as suggested by a member of this list a few months ago.)
Rich, PeterH can probably explain this better to you than me, but in short: if you move a HD from the native IDE bus to a PCI ATA controller you have to initialize the HD again. Marc * * -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
