On Aug 3, 2009, at 11:08 AM, trag wrote: > > On Aug 1, 2:24 pm, Bill Connelly <[email protected]> wrote: >> In my QS 2002 Dual 1GHz under 10.5.7, my "750GB Seagate PATA is >> Dropping Out Again". > >> 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. >> > Do you hear the drive spin down and spin back up, or making clicking > sounds like that is happening? I think these new drives may be too > quiet to actually hear them spin down and up. > > I had similar problems a few years ago with a drive dropping in and > out. It turned out to be the power supply connector in the > computer. I sent three drives in for warranty replacement before my > brain turned on, and I tried testing the suspect drives on a different > machine, where they worked perfectly. At that point I realized that > the latest "failure" wasn't and replaced the power connector. I had > still needlessly replaced the earlier drives, though. > > The earlier poster's suggestion of trying it in your firewire > enclosure again, is also a good way to test it. I also wonder if a > fault in your optical drive (or its power connector) on the same bus > could be causing the issue.
Just seems to click off ... I know the sound of a failing drive ... multiple R/W attempts. I'm currently testing the 750GB Seagate in an external FW enclosure. Got a kp on first attempt to Startup using System Preferences > Startup Disk to change over to the 750GB in the external enclosure. Then, I restarted using a Tiger partition, and it now seems to be working ... Spotlight indexing seems awfully slow, though. A clone of the OS X 10.5.7 that failed on the 750GB drive, both from the mobo, and from the enclosure, works from another 80GB drive in another FW enclosure (my backup of the 750GB drives Leopard partition) ... A replacement 500GB drive is now working with the same ATA cable and power connector as the 750GB was failing inside the QS, but it has different copy of the OS X 10.5.7 (its my backup drive from my Digital Audio Dual 533). I don't know what to conclude quite yet ... I have replaced the 750GB drive's Leopard partition once before, but may try again, using a CCC clone from the 80GB backup drive that does work with the backup copy of the 10.5.7 partition from the 750GB drive. Thanks for everyone's responses ... just taking me awhile to get at it ... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
