>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 ?
I am very reluctant to suggest anything, this is a situation where hands-on support needs to be done. First, Eudora, IE and remote access co-exist with no problems. I strongly suspect you had something else go wrong, possibly a 3rd party extension or (gulp) a hardware failure of the Maxtor. I would start by booting OS 9.1 from CD and running Apple Disk First Aid and CHECKING the Maxtor to see what is up. The problem is the next step depends on the results of the check. -- -- Mr. PopMan - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - "Does anybody want to play a game of pinball?" Love is a treasure for which we can never pay. The only way we keep it is to give it away. Jim Stovall-The Ultimate Gift -- 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
