On Sunday, September 7, 2003, at 08:45 PM, Mark Patrick wrote:
I then tried to load OS X onto the other partition and it loaded, but it froze with some type of bad looking streaks running across the startup. I loaded it again. Same problem.Streaks, eh? Maybe a video card issue?
Put back in my old 30 gig Western Digital and partitioned it and loaded both Operating systems. Both work great. So I am up and > running.Guess it's not the video card...
I'm pretty sure the 60 gig hard drive is the culprit.Yeah, probably, but really weird way to show it (with the streaks and all). Before giving up the ghost on the Western Digital try this. Boot to a 9.x CD. Open Drive Setup. Go to the Functions menu and choose Initialization Options. In the box that opens put a check mark in Zero All Data.
After zeroing all data, and assuming no problems with formatting. With Drive Setup still running, return to the Functions menu and choose Test Disk. Test Disk will root out any problems with the drive. If that test fails, the drive is shot. The format and the test take a long time to run, so go get some lunch while it's doing its thing.
My question is this, if I look for another brand to buy, what would be a good hard drive for my Mac G3 - 300 Blue and White tower?I have a G3 450 MT. I started out with two IBM 40 GB Deskstar drives. One was broken out of the box (formatted to 32 GB, while the second one formatted normally to 38.6 GB). Took two trips back to the shop, but the bum drive was eventually fixed. (Then my slave IDE bus killed it again, my Mac's fault, not the drive's fault.)
I have not purchased Maxtor nor IBM drives before, but it would seem that all drives must be fairly competitive, or is there any one drive that may fit my Mac better?
I moved on to dual Maxtor 120GB 7200 RPM drives. One is running off a Sonnet ATA 133 Tempo card. I bought the first Maxtor some time ago and have had NO troubles with it. Before I press a drive into service I always write zeros to it and use the Test Disk function first. I like the Maxtor drives and have no complaints.
It it possible to get a super fast drive - I mean faster than these Western Digitals. The reason I bought these is because they are easy to find in most stores.Most drives now-a-days are 7200 RPM. Some of the really huge drives (like 250 GB) are still running 5400 RPM. Read the fine print on the box to see how fast it is. I think I saw some high end 9600 RPM drives, but they are very expensive.
Thank you for any help.
Mark
Thanks,
Glenn
B&W G3 450/Sonnet ATA133/2x Maxtor 120GB HD/Toshiba Combo Drive/Zip 100/1 GB RAM
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