I bent the pins on 2- 68 pin adapters hooking up some 9 and 4.5 gig IBM drives (I think I may have posted about this before, but I have sunce hosed these drives a couple of times) to an Adaptec SCSI card, and since then this machine will not always recognize the drives mounted to the cards (right now it will see my main drive, but not on a restart, just a gray screen w/ cursor, symptomatic of SCSI voodoo), and not at all through the internal SCSI connections (either). And on the occasions when it will recognize a drive, I can not reformat it in HFS+, as a matter of fact, the initialization attempts will most often fail in HFS, and always in HFS+ (using the Apple HD setup 8.1.2 or HDST 3.5). These drives are recognized on a 7600 in the HFS+ format and run normally. This is a total of 4 drives (2-9's and 2-4.5's) in the PTP.
The setup on this machine is: OS 9.1, Sonnet G4/450, 1024MB RAM, 2 IMS (4 and 8 MB) video cards in the E (4MB) and F (8MB) slots running a 20" and a 15" Apple monitor, 2 SCSI cards in the A (2930 running the 4.5 gigs w/ adaptors) and B (2940UW running the 9 gigs) slots, 10 base ethernet, ZIP 100 in the external SCSI MB socket, and an external Yamaha 6416 CDRW HD50 hooked up to the 2930 card. Everything works when the machine goes through a normal boot process, except for the format thing. The only things changed in conjunction with the screw-up on the adaptors was the addition of the Sonnet card (tried with several drivers-Sonnet, XLR8, and PowerLogix with the same effect). I have utilized several iterations of this setup with the exception of going back to the stock CPU, although I did go back to the previous card, a PowerLogix 333Mhz, which had run flawlessly for about 18 months. What I 've done is confuse myself to the point that I need an outside opinion to show me the wonderfully simple fix I'm missing. Thanks, Greg -- 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
