In previous episodes I had reported on problems getting a Voodoo 5 card to run in my Frankenmac. But now It seems I have a problem worse than getting the Voodoo 5 card to work. All of a sudden, my Mac will not boot from the hard drive. It will only boot from a Norton SystemWorks or TechTool Pro CD.
The hard drive is an IBM 18GB (model 'DGHS' if I understand the label on the drive) connected to an Adaptec 2940 Ultra Wide host adapter (using the 68-pin connector), firmware v4.1. The hard drive is the only device connected to this bus. I can't hear if the drive is spinning up or not; it was warm on removal from the computer, and it's on the same power bus as a Jaz drive which IS working, so I'm reasonably certain it's getting power. But the LED on the Adaptec card does not light up at all. I've tested or tried to mount the hard drive using the following utilities: Peripheral View v1.2 SCSI Director SCSI Probe v5.2 Mt. Everything Hard Disk Toolkit Silverlining v5.8.3 All properly identify the Adaptec SCSI bus, but none find or will mount the hard drive. The hard drive icon does not appear on the desktop when the computer is booted from either Norton or TechTool. So, do I have a bad SCSI card, or has the hard drive gone down the toilet? Assuming either the card or the drive (or both) has gone bad, what are my options? Would it be better to replace both with something like a Tempo Ultra ATA card and an ATA/IDE drive? System configuration: 8600/9600 Mother Board/xlr8G3/300Mhz/1.5GB RAM/18GB HD/OS 9.1 SCSI Bus 0 (Apple internal): Pioneer CD-ROM (ID 2); Iomega Jaz Drive (ID 4) SCSI Bus 1 (Apple internal): Iomega Zip Drive (ID 6) SCSI Bus 2 (Adaptec 2940UW): IBM 'DGHS' Hard Drive, 18GB PCI Cards: A1: open B1: open C1: Adaptec 2940UW D2: Firewire card E2: USB card F2: ATI Xclaim VR128 -- 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
