I was hoping someone could help me troubleshoot my 500 MHz G4 running OS 10.3 (not sure if it's a Sawtooth, Gigabit Ethernet, or Digital Audio). It normally boots off of a 8 GB HD and has 2 500 GB HDs connected by way of a PCI-slot ATA card. I think the card is the Sonnet Tempo but it might be a SIIG card. I bought it years ago and unfortunately cannot find any documentation on what it is!
The problem is that several days ago I could no longer access the 500 GB drives from the network, and when I went to the G4 to check, the drive icons for all partitions of these drives were missing. Disk Utility can't see them either. I even went so far as to install a bootable OS 10.3 on a partition less than 128GB when I set up the system, and I can't get the bootloader to realize it has this option. The computer boots up fine from the original 8GB drive, although it now seems to become unstable and freeze within 2-16 hours after startup. These two 500 GB drives are important to me as they are backup for the rest of my computers. I can always take them out and rescue the data, but I'd really like to get the backup system (network backups with SuperDuper) working again. I think it unlikely that the HDs failed at the same time, so I first suspect the card, the PCI slot, and then the motherboard. I've jiggled all the connections on the card and no dice. I'd like to try it in a different PCI slot (since there are 3 others) but I don't remember where to grab and how much it's ok to pull to get the card back out. Any advice? Thanks. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
