The problem I was having may have been due to a nearby PCI card crimping the Apple supplied short mobo ATA cable: I had also mounted my drive in the top position of the QSs piggyback sled, for better air flow.
Of course when trying to debug a sole drive "dropping off the desktop", you can go different routes: UltraATA (or UltraDMA) drives not being supported as Cable Select off a Cable Select setup in a QS 2002, according to an Apple manual, was one of the places. Someone stated (Peter, I believe, if I understood correctly) Apple, historically, uses an HP/Compaq patented Startup protocol that requires the "Cable Select" (slitted) off the mobo ATA cable at Startup, then, depending on the machine and particular hard drive specs, uses whatever the drive is set to (CS/Single/Master/Slave). (Note: Maxtors & others, are sometimes different from Seagates). Several links in a chain of IDE channel events, any one of which MAY break the desired result of a good connection being established AND then maintained. As recently suggested, to be on the safe side, I decided upon returning to using the un-crimped Apple slit "CS ATA cable" with my Seagate Ultra ATA(DMA) 750GB 7200.10 drive, jumpered to Master. So far, the drive has not started clicking, and dropping off the radar ... which to me could indicate a failing drive and/or a bad connection. With it being a year old, light use, Seagate, and the crimped cable, I'm going with it having been a bad connection, for now. And I am using the symbolically unpleasant terms of Master/Slave to solve my hard drive dropping dead while over-working issue ... although I have no Slaves in my household. Bill Connelly artsite: http://mysite.verizon.net/moonstoneartstudio myspace: http://www.myspace.com/moonstoneartstudio --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
