I originally wrote: > >>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?
David wrote: >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. >-- This conflict or computer freezing issue has occurred for me on both a 9500 and 8500 loaded with the same applications mentioned above and under the same circumstances except that the 9500 was running 8.1. I had suspected my GV 56K modem or it's software as the culprit since I used it on both machines. Then again I have the same copy of Eudora 5 w/ a 5.1 patch and IE 5 installed on both. On the 9500/OS 8.1 IF I was able to bail IE or Eudora with command/opt/esc a restart would always be necessary because the PPP would remain locked and my modem would need reset because it was also locked as if it still had a connection even after a restart. I also thought it might be related to when Eudora checks for mail in the background as I was invariably in an IE browser window when the computer froze. When I went with 8.6 on my 8500 this happened very seldom over quite a long period of time but when it did occur it was the same scenario only I do not believe remote access stayed locked. I recently put 9.1 on the new Maxtor and the same problem occurred several times within a few weeks. Eudora and IE were running off my original SCSI HD. The last freeze a few nights ago is what prompted me to switch back to that original drive with 8.6 for start up and my Maxtor partition w/ 9.1disappeared and the other two partitions showed as unmounted. Still waiting for a day off at home to address that. Been very very busy with work and several projects so this had to go on back burner for now. Comments about the lock-ups would be appreciated. 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
