In a message dated 1/23/03 3:32:21 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << > You will always have to reinitialize a drive when moving it from a real EIDE > controller to a Mac EIDE/UATA controller as the Mac implementation requires > tha the drive be initialized as a SCSI drive. > > Drive Setup will take care of this for you. > > Just select "initialize".
Could you expand on this a little. I think I frizzed a pair of 20 gig IDE drives the other day while trying to get them ready for a card. I put them one at a time into a 6300 and intialized them and wrote zeros. Took a long time. then, when installing an OS, it failed, and the drives seemed to go kablooey. If there's a way to revive them I'd sure like to. It is probable that the drives were bad when I got them, but it is not certain. >> The procedure I use is this: 1) power off the machine, 2) connect the new UATA drive to the UATA controller as the only drive, meaning it is the Master; Channel 1 or channel 2 doesn't matter, 3) power on the machine, 4) verify that: a) ASP sees the card as a SCSI card, and 2) ASP sees the drive as an uninitialzied drive, 5) launch Drive Setup; verify that DS sees the drive, 6) select "Initialize"; a quick initialize with one partition only is OK at this point, 7) verify that: a) the drive is mounted on the desktop, and b) you can drag and drop some files to it, 8) launch DS again, selecting "Initialize" and "Write Zeros", 9) execute the media check function of DS, 10) select initialize again, this time specifying the precise partitioning you want to use. With respect to (10), it is my policy to make all partitions an integral multiple of my backup drive's capacity. Since I use a DDS-2 tape for backups, all my partitions are 4 GB, 8 GB, etcetera. I have modified DS so that I can create more than eight partitions. I use 15 partitions on one of my drives with no problems. More than 20 partitions starts to give performance problems, and 45 partitions is pretty much unusable. Of course, the normal DS allows only 8 partitions. -- 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
