I hope you guys can help me out. I have a 10 gig IDE hard drive, actually it's the hard drive that originally came with my G4. (Yes, this is also the one that was for sale on LEMSwap, but the person who wanted it recanted, and I decided to keep it.)
I remember back when I got my G4, there were a lot of problems with the IDE drive and my 4 gig SCSI drive (which is the computer's only hard disk now) being in there together. Don't remember specifics, but basically just that whenever the 10 gigger was in there, the computer would crash. Well, I decided to give it another try, seeing as how my 4 gig drive is almost full, and I plan to buy OS X soon. I installed the IDE drive and the computer booted fine from the SCSI drive. (Oddly, it would freeze if I tried to boot from the OS 9 CD.) Drive Setup could see the IDE drive, named <not initialized>. First I tested it for bad blocks, and Drive Setup found none. So I tried to initialize the drive. Almost immediately I get the message, "Initialization failed." I tried this with "Zero All Data" checked and got the same message. Odder still, the option for low level format was grayed out. I removed the IDE drive and stuck it in an old 60mhz Pentium I have laying around. BIOS refused to see it. All possible jumper settings have been tried. It is a Quantum Fireball CX with Apple logo. Is all hope for this disk lost? What else can I do, if anything? I would love to be able to use it if at all possible, instead of having to buy a new drive. How does all this relate to networking, you may ask? Wellllll... that hard drive will be running IPNetRouter, linking my localtalk Macs to the ethernet side of the network. :) (I plan to pass the SCSI drive on to someone else.) If you think this is off-topic, please email me off-list if you have any ideas. Thanks, everyone. -- Amber Rhea [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tangerinecs.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign \ / No HTML/RTF in email X No Word docs in email / \ Respect open standards -- MacNetwork is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... XRouter Pro | Share your DSL or cable modem between multiple computers! Dr. Bott | Only $199 <http://www.drbott.com/prod/MIH130.html> Now shipping! Farallon Wireless SkyLINE PCI Card for Mac Desktops! <http://www.farallon.com/le/skyline/pci/index.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> MacNetwork list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/macnet.html> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/macnetwork%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
