Ok, went to work this morning and discovered that my 18GB SCSI hard drive in my 7300 is officially dead. It clicks a couple of times and then nothing. So I decided to try to use an ATA card again. I tried before without success. I had used the ACARD ATA-100+ and a Sonnet ATA card. This time I went back to the Sonnet ATA-100. I attached an IDE CD-ROM (Apple stock) on one of the ATA ports and the 30 GB Quantum IDE drive on the other (both running as masters). I do not have any SCSI hard drive available. My stock Apple SCSI CD-ROM is the only SCSI in the system (I need it I guess to act as a terminator). Now the IDE Hard drive and CD-Rom are set to cable select.
The other internal SCSI port beside the one used by the SCSI hard drive and CD-ROM is empty (not even a terminator). I have the SCSI CD-Rom attached to the end of the chain and it's terminated. My question. Every time I try to initialize the Quantum drive from the OS 9.1 CD I keep getting a "initialization failed" message. Is this because my SCSI ports are not properly terminated? I know that the ATA card works because I'm running the OS CD from the IDE CD-Rom NOT from the SCSI. The IDE CD works great so far. I just can't get this darned HD to initialize and mount properly. Any know what I need to do to get my IDE drive to just simply initialize and mount. I've also tried attaching both HD and CD-Rom in different ATA ports and setting them as masters. Still I get the same message when trying to initialize it. Would properly terminating the BOTH internal ports make a difference? Thanks in advance. -- "We're all on the same sinking ship; it's just some of us were volunteered to be the captains." -- anonymous "Put that in your pipe and smoke it!" -- Dr. Evil from Goldmember. -- -- 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/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
