A few months ago I put in a new 60 GB Maxtor drive and ATA/EIDE 66 controller card into my 8500/PLogix G3/384 MB/OS 8.6 on original SCSI 1 gig drive. I made 3 partitions on the new Maxtor and installed OS 9.1 on the first, some large file apps on the 2nd and use the last for digital camera and video files. I initially switched the startup disk between the SCSI 1 gig w/ 8.6 and Maxtor partition w/ 9.1 a few times after I first installed the new hardware but have been on the 9.1 OS from the Maxtor for quite some time.
Last night I experienced a few freezes on 9.1 which seemed to be related to having Eudora and IE 5 open at the same time with a remote access (ISP) connection. I shut down the8500 for the night after changing the startup disk back to the 1 gig SCSI 8.6 OS drive so I could compare the performance to the 9.1 . Today when I started up, the Maxtor drive didn't appear on the desktop. ASP lists two partitions of the Maxtor as unmounted drives but doesn't show the first partition that contains the 9.1 OS at all. It also shows the unformatted size of those as 57.26 GB (on a 60 GB drive) which doesn't make sense since the partition with the OS is about 8 GB. Tried restarting, then booting from Tech Tool and finding no Maxtor . I went to Drive Setup and the two unmounted partitions (but not the other) were there waiting to be initialized. I do not want to lose all my data so I do not want to resort to that yet without first getting suggestions from this astute list. Where is my drive (partion) and OS, how does it suddenly show as unmounted? What should I try? Can I expect this drive to be this finicky and undependable after nearly eight years of solid performance from my original SCSI ? Thanks, Mike -- 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
