On Feb 21, 2010, at 11:15 AM, Clark Martin wrote: > On 2/21/10 10:58 AM, JOHN CARMONNE wrote: >> >> On Feb 21, 2010, at 10:51 AM, Clark Martin wrote: >> >>> On Feb 21, 2010, at 12:39 AM, Jake Zeppa wrote: >>> >>>>> I just picked up a dual 1.25 MDD to replace my slow dual 450 >>>>> giga. >>> None the less, I've spent the last few hours fighting a problem >>> transferring data from my old drive (80gb WD ata/100), to a >>> Deskstar 80gb ata/100, and I figured it would be best to ask the >>> experts (you guys). The drive that originally came with the >>> computer (Seagate 80gb ata/100) stopped working while transferring >>> data (now it's not recognized by any computer), and the Deskstar >>> has corruption issues now. The drives are set up using the ata/100 >>> bus, both drives set to CS. The computer works great, but somewhere >>> between the two drives when transferring data, everything gets >>> messed up. The original drives data seems fine, and it passes the >>> utility tests, as where the Deskstar now shows errors, and has >>> files I transfered that can't be opened (and a lot of them). Did I >>> screw up somewhere, or could this be a computer problem? I'm open >>> to all suggestions, and I really appreciate the help. Thanks >>>>> >>> >>> I ran into something similar recently. First thing is you might try >>> putting the "other" drive on the third ATA bus. Until I got the >>> MDD I didn't know it has 3 ATA busses. >>> >>> The other thing is the drive that came with it was, I think, an >>> 80Gb Deskstar. While it worked fine in the MDD, it won't work in a >>> Sawtooth (I had a 160 Gb HD from the Sawtooth I use in the MDD >>> now). Of two Firewire drives I've tested it in only one would see >>> it properly. I haven't yet investigated it, it might be a matter of >>> the ATA version. >>> >>> I CCC'd the 160 Gb over to the 80Gb, reformatted the 160 and copied >>> everything back. I had tried doing it with the two drives on the >>> same bus, that had problems recognizing the drives. I tried putting >>> the 80Gb in a FW enclosure and that didn't work. About then I >>> noticed the 3rd bus, tried that and that worked just fine. > >> The third Bus in the MDD is ata 33 for the optical drive I think that >> it's too slow for a HDD that's used for anything other than >> storage. > > The optical bus is ATA-3 but I'm not talking about that one. The MDD > also has "1 - Ultra ATA/66 (ATA-5), 1- ATA / 100 (ATA-6)" per MacTracker. > I'm talking about the ATA/66 bus. > > In any event be it 33 or 66 it's still just fine for transferring the HD > especially if it avoids the problem the OP is having. > > > -- > Clark Martin > Redwood City, CA, USA > Macintosh / Internet Consulting > > "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" > Sorry for that when you said third Bus I took it as the 33. I have put my Two 118L Pioneers on the 66 so I can utilize full burn speeds, I have a 250 WD on the 33 for iTunes library. But I had to mess with my MDD when I first got it to get the drives working properly, I did have to partition one to 180GB to allow OS9 to boot.
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