The thing is the 7300 did see the ATA card because it registered it in System Profiler and when you clicked on it in Profiler it even listed the drive that was attached to it. Drive Setup even showed the drive as being <not initialized> as it should have but the problem is when you try to initialize it. In OS 9.1 and lower it tries to initialize it BUT then quickly gives you the "initialization failure" message. It stops right at the beginning of the initialization process. I've tried drive setup from the 9.1 disk to the 8.5 disk and each time I got the same message.
A couple of very interesting points however are : 1) after the initialization failure in either OS 9.1 or OS 8.5 I get this message saying that the disk could be protected but it's not because I was able to re-format the same disk with the same card in my B&W 2) Last night via XPostFacto and my OS X.1 startup disk, I was able to successfully format the drive! Of course when booting back into 9.1 and lower the drives weren't mounted and attempting to initialize them caused the same errors again. I even tried installing OS X.1 on one of the drives and the installation went smoothly BUT I got kernal panics on the restart. -- 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
