Have you tried putting it back into the firewire enclosure and seeing if it still drops out? That'll tell you if it's the drive or something on your motherboard. Have you tested other drives inside the computer on the same ATA bus as the 750 that is dropping out?
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Bill Connelly<billycarm...@verizon.net> wrote: > > In my QS 2002 Dual 1GHz under 10.5.7, my "750GB Seagate PATA is > Dropping Out Again". > > Details of drive: > > ST3750640A > 7200.10 > 750GB > Master setting and on last black connector of cable. > > Had this issue before ... wondering if its time to get a replacement > from Seagate? Its only a year old, with very low use. Used it as an > external FW drive, but reformatted and cloned all partitions back > awhile ago for use as an internal drive. > > I've replaced the mobo awhile ago as well, and just switched in the > Apple supplied ATA cable from another Mac, thinking it is a defective > cable. > > New RAM tests OK. > > I hear a definitive "multi/single-click", like either the DVD RW and/ > or Zip Drive is shutting down, then I get a spinning beach ball ... > then the QS just freezes at that point, or continues to spin the beach > ball. > > My QS seems to function ok from a clone of the OS X 10.5.7 on an > external FW enclosure. > > Having replaced the DVD RW awhile ago, maybe I didn't have it Jumpered > properly? (checking) > > Ideas? > > > > > > -- Chance Reecher 765-4609 491-2286 cnrtechh...@gmail.com AIM: cnrtechhead --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
