On Feb 1, 2005, at 8:58 AM, Eagle wrote:
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Does this mean that in fact the onboard Ultra ATA interface -- and not the hard drive -- is bad?
Disk First Aid has repeatedly shown filesystem errors, which I resolved
either with Disk First Aid itself or by repartitioning or reformatting.
This means that you have data corruption. Could either be that the HD
doesn't like being on the CD bus, and/or the HD always gets corrupted by
the onboard IDE.
Because I could install with the interfaces reversed, I'm wondering if it's just the interface that is bad...
The B&W G3 Rev1 is known to have data corruption with certain drives.
Especially when using a slaved HD since the Rev1 does not work with
slave HDs at all. Buying a PCI IDE controller would solve this problem.
You might have seen my post about this earlier - are there any PCI IDE controllers that can be had for under $90? :(
Of course the HD could be bad anyway, you said you formatted the HD several times but have you also done a low level format?
How do you do a low-level format on an IDE drive? Drive Setup won't do it, but I did do a "zero all bytes" format.
For the heck of it I would go out and get a new IDE drive, since they're
cheap nowadays, and get a PCI IDE controller a long with it. OWC is a
good reseller (www.macsales.com. Not affiliated BTW).
Thanks - I'll check them out.
Also although you've tested all three sticks, they could be bad anyway.
IMHO just get some PC133 256MB sticks aswell.
I'll start watching LEM-swap for that - thanks.
Eagle
What kind of cable are you using with the HD? If you are using a plain standard IDE cable, these don't work well with the ultra IDE ports. Try a proper cable before you condemn the port.
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