After several unsuccessful early attempts yesterday, I tried again to use Drive Setup (v 2.0.3) to mount my 3 month old ATA /EIDE Maxtor that went south. That option had been dimmed and not available during much of my earlier troubleshooting so I was optimistic when I saw "Mount Volumes" under the functions menu. This time the attempt caused a nice crash. Frustration set in, I did a 3 finger restart, made sure no other apps were open and tried it again only to get another system lock up.
I spent the next hour or so trying to get my 8500/G3/OS 8.6 good working SCSI drive to boot and open to the desktop. Just a blank blue desktop with nothing but a cursor that moved but no ability to shut down normally. I feared I had somehow completely corrupted my desktop file. After several attempts to start up from a backup CD with OS 8.6 and Disk Warrior I got it and just to be safe rebuilt that SCSI HD disk directory. Then I got a direct boot from the HD. During that ordeal I had tried alternately disconnected the power connectors from the two hard drives. The key here seemed to be I left the power disconnected to the Maxtor drive. (C'mon it was 2 AM). This morning I tried to normal everything up with power to the Maxtor and tried starting from the other drive. At the end of the extensions loading, the screen went blank again with just the cursor. It would not restart from a CD by holding the "C" either, just straight to a blank screen. I disconnected the Maxtor power connector and was able to start from the SCSI HD again. I have several utility apps just waiting to try and mount the Maxtor including Mt Everything (downloaded) and LaCieSilverlining (which I forgot I even had) but NOW I can't even start my computer with that [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maxtor connected to power. What now, a sudden termination problem? I didn't think that was an issue with an EIDE drive connected to a VST Ultratek 66 card? Could the bus ID's go wacky on me during the mounting attempt? Everything was distinct and separate. Would it be risky to reconnect the power connector to the back of the Maxtor after the computer is running? After all, it's not really a SCSI bus and I'm not touching a SCSI connector. These could be moot questions as the drive probably has to be detected at start up, and apparently the system doesn't like THAT at all either. What to do, what to do??? 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
