Sorry if this sounds negative, BUT ... be suspicious of the Maxtor Drive.
At ElectroCom Automation, we used the Maxtor SCSI Hard Disk Drives on the Multiline-A and -B High Speed Document Handling Machines (Prints the Bar Code for the ZIP Code on the Mail.) There was a much higher than predicted failure rate. Talking with the more savy engineers, I was told, "Maxtor was always on the leading edge of technology and so ... more prone to malfunction. Nothing to do with the SCSI ... so IMHO suspect the drive. As Greg Olson stated, "Move the Firewire PCI card first. RHB ****************************** Lew Mills wrote: > > However, I have a Firewire PCI card and a Maxtor Firewire drive on > it, which sometimes misbehaves. On booting, it goes unrecognized. > This sometimes hangs the finder, maybe because some files are on the > Maxtor which it needs, though the system is on the internal HD. > > The SCSI chain is independent of the PCI card's "bridge" to the > Firewire drive, right? Is my bus speed of 40 MHz a limiting factor > here? > > Is there some other reason that the Maxtor is not working sometimes? > It also seems to mess up a lot with installers claiming that files > are corrupt, which they probably are not. All the Maxtor supplied > test utilities show it is fine. I turned off the sleeping function > for the Maxtor, but that did not solve the problem. > > Hints on where to start are much appreciated. > > Lew > -- -- Power Computing is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Power Computing list info: <http://lowendmac.com/power/list.html> --> 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]> List archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powercomputing%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
