Frank Stadmeyer wrote: > Thanks for the reply, > When you talk about the CUDA button are you saying to open the case and > power on the box and then press the button?
No open the box, press the CUDA button for a few seconds, then boot the machine, that will reset the mobo.
OK
> The 2940UW came out of a PC so that's why I don't think it will boot. > Like I said I'm a new convert to Macs at home and now I understand why > I've had difficulty booting from that drive. Time to get a Mac ROM SCSI > card maybe or remember what kept me from running it off the 2930 that > was in the box when I got it.
I think it's time to move on to ATA, they're as fast as SCSI and much cheaper than ATA HDs.
I got the Mac used and that's the way it was set up. I was trying to use it pretty much the way it came to avoid any more cost. I just added the 3rd small SCSI because I had it and it was in a Mac I wasn't going to use anymore. The plan was to just use CCC to back up the primary HD. Never got there.
> What I think happened is that the disk is locked somehow from using the > Diskwarrior Volume Recover in Norton Systemworks but only part way. I > think it said it had created a replacement and locked the original > waiting for something. That's the point at which I decided that I > didn't want to do that and went off in a different direction (Into HD > hell it seems). I figured I would just go ahead and reboot with the > Norton CD and get back to where I was but the computer won't do that. > Hopefully using the CUDA button will let me do that. It's frustrating > because all the utilities that run, see the disk and apparently all the > files just not the one that caused me the grief.
Yes could be. BTW I thought that the DiskWarrior version which came with Norton Systemworks was a version which could check your HD for errors but couldn't fix them and you had to buy the real version for that purpose?
I have both. The one in NSW sure said it was going to fix something.
> I'm thinking that if all else fails I can remove the offending drive, > install OSX on the 80GB drive then reinstall the original drive, copy > all the files off it (maybe) and reformat to start over.
That would be partially the way to go yes. I suggest you use the 80GB ATA as the primary and perhaps use the SCSI disk just for backup. Also OS X is picky about SCSI, sometimes it works, sometimes it don't, so I would get rid of those small SCSI drives overall, get a second ATA HD, and for the money you save for not buying a PCI SCSI controller and/or HD get a PCI ATA controller such as these ones:
<http://eshop.macsales.com/Catalog_Item.cfm?ID=4797&Item=STITAT133> <http://eshop.macsales.com/Catalog_Item.cfm?ID=4348&Item=SIISCMP4A12>.
I'll check them out when I get home and I'm not paying for a dialup from a hotel room.
One question, the ATA drive has a bunch of data (Mp3's and photos) on it. Is there going to be a problem installing OSX on it? I've heard things like it needs to be in a separate partition or in the 1st 8 GB of the drive. If there is already data there do I have to move it? I know I can do that with Partition Magic in the PC world. What about on a Mac?
Thanks for your help.
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