Hi, I have a 7200 with a 4GB SCSI HD, a SCSI CD-ROM, and a Sonnet Tempo Ultra ATA66 PCI card. I just recently got the card and I've been having problems getting OS 9.1 to recognize anything attached to it (actually all the OSes below X have difficulty working with drives connected to the card).
The reason I got the card was because I believe the faster SCSI port went belly up last year and I've been using the slower port ever since. Every time I connected a drive to the faster port and I boot up the machine nothing happens. The slower one at least works fine. I want to use iMovie and I keep getting errors when trying to view even a clip -- I get the message that my disk is too slow. As well 4GB doesn't cut it when wanting to edit video so I need the large drives. So I have this ATA 66 card and I've attached a 40GB Maxtor HD to it. In 9.1, the damn OS only sees the drive in the drive setup BUT keeps failing when I try to initialize it (extended and standard trying different partition sizes). In Jaguar everything seems fine (I'm using the 4GB drive as the boot drive). I can even use the ATA CD-ROM in X BUT I can't boot from the CD-ROM (even though it's a pull from my B&W). I know the card works fine since I tried it in my B&W and OS 9.2 and Jag were able to work with anything that was attached to it. The drive itself is fine since I was able to work with it in Jag. Anyone know what the heck is going on with the card or with my 7200? I've also moved the card to all 3 PCI slots and each time I get the same results. BTW I have a RAGE 128 video card in one of the PCI slots. Thanks in advance and sorry for the length of my message. -- 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
