Hi LISTERS,
WELL Thanks for all helpful suggestions so far
HD is a 40GB Seagate ST340014A, presumably the original. At present
there is no jumper on the back so I assume that's running as Cable
Select?
I know about jumpering HD's from my days on the Dark Side, but since
most of my Macs are all-in-ones, I've always used external FW drives
and USB memory sticks, so I'm not yet up to speed on the Mac way.
If I wanted to add another HD would I have to jumper them as Master
and slave or would leaving them as cable select work?
I"ve got a brand new 40GB drive that was destined for one of the
iMacs, so I may as well
clone the working system over to that - however the QS is still being
a bit pernickety!
It has been running fine and not powering down, and seemed to have
settled.....
However it has somehow evoked Murphy.......and yesterday it took about
50 tries before it went stable..... initially the fans will come on
and then it will die immediately. After about twenty of these it will
start to bong and then sometimes gets halfway through boot before
dying!
After more retries it will boot OSX and then stay stable for a couple
of minutes, - I invoked Disk utility and did a Repair permissions ,
and it fixed quite a lot, ....and then fell over again!
I left it running yesterday when I went to work and came back today to
find it had fallen over again.
It's now running stable (touch wood!) after about five boots.
I have tried booting in Safe mode: in the early stages of the multi-
boot routine this seems to make no difference - it's just as flaky!
However it seems to not always 'see' the shift key, when I am booting
it, so booting into safe mode seems hit-and-miss! This is with both
my Lindy keyboard or with my Mac Pro keyboard, which I've currently
got plugged in.
Processor heatsink just feels warm to the touch, so I don't think it's
a heat issue, and I'm loath to reseat the processor just FTHOI.
HD not showing any SmartDrive problems.
As I write this it's been up and running for about 25 minutes and I've
just installed Onyx.
I'm going to settle down with a cup of tea and read the system logs
for today and see if I can find any clues there.
Keep those helpful thought coming in people!
Regards, Dan.
On Apr 1, 7:06 am, Mark Sokolovsky <[email protected]> wrote:
> and drive 1 has 3 partitons. A 20GB partition, and (2) 10GB partitons.
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