Earlier this week I got around to putting a 10 gig IDE drive in my new Firewire enclosure. The drive was a pull from Small Dog that I got two garage sales ago.
The drive was easily installed in a Firewire enclosure I just bought and when I connected the Firewire cable to my Firewire PCI card in my 7600, the drive showed up on the desktop and was formatted as a Mac HFS+ drive. This is where the problems started. I tried copying some folders with thousands of files and it froze with a disk error after just the first few files. I decided it might not hurt to check the disk. I used Disk Warrior to successfully replace the directory but the problem persisted. I tried erasing the disk and reformatting the drive but when I tried to do it through the Finder it would run through a check of the free space kilobyte by kilobyte and then freeze. Drive Setup never saw the drive (not surprising). I then went on the web to get more info and found out my best bet for disk management was to download software to manage Firewire drives - Disk Control 1.1. It would see the drive but when I tried to format it would give me an OS Error type -36 (i/o error occured). QUESTIONS: - Is the drive salvageable? - Was it anything I did to bring on the problems? I don't have another IDE drive except for the one in my 6400 and I can't spare that. The only thing I can think to try to fix this 10 gig drive is to install it temporarily in the 6400 and use the drive tools on it. If that works, it means there is something wonky with Firewire or how I did it. If not, I would say the drive is probably done for. Any comments or help would be appreciated. Brian -- Brian Braunschweiger Missionary with Arab World Ministries <http://www.awm.org> -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; 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/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
