Re: 750GB Seagate PATA is Dropping Out Again

2009-08-07 Thread Charles Lenington

Bill Connelly wrote:
 On Aug 1, 2:24 pm, Bill Connelly billycarm...@verizon.net wrote:
   

   

 Not enough power to run it off the internal power supply? (does a  
 750GB take more power than a 500GB Seagate?)

   
Try using drive power extensions (probably easier to find splitters) and 
a pc (AT best because of switch) power supply setting outside your case. 
Turn the pc ps on before starting Mac

This will let you know if the Mac power supply is getting week.
 Something wrong with the power cable? (it works with a 500GB Seagate  
 7100.10)

 A Cable Select cable isn't working with it set as Master (which it  
 should)? (again, it works with a 500GB Seagate 7100.10)
   


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Re: 750GB Seagate PATA is Dropping Out Again

2009-08-07 Thread Bill Connelly


On Aug 7, 2009, at 2:46 AM, Dan wrote:


 At 10:15 PM -0400 8/6/2009, Bill Connelly wrote:
 On Aug 1, 2:24 pm, Bill Connelly billycarm...@verizon.net wrote:
 In my QS 2002 Dual 1GHz under 10.5.7, my 750GB Seagate PATA is
 Dropping Out Again.

 Well it dropped out again. After moving it back from an external FW
 enclosure, it started up with multiple Bus Errors and eventually
 dropped off the Desktop.

 What does it show in the system log?

I can't tell. I'll send Dan a copy.

I had started Spotlight again, since I had turned it off to simplify  
things, but I was getting a message like:
Aug  7 10:00:18 Moonstone-Art-Studio /Applications/Utilities/ 
Console.app/Contents/MacOS/Console[285]: installAutoFSMonitor: open  
failed

I have taken to watching Activity Monitor at all Startups / Restarts,  
and wait for things to calm down before proceeding with any Restarts,  
etc.


 What can be said about a drive that works in an external FW  
 enclosure,
 but drops off an internal mobo ATA channel?

 If it was working ok in the external box, then the drive itself is ok.

 Not enough power to run it off the internal power supply? (does a
 750GB take more power than a 500GB Seagate?)

According to the Seagate 7200.10 specs, the 500 and 750GB drives are  
essentially identical. In my QS, the 500 works, but this 750 drops  
out ...

 Something wrong with the power cable? (it works with a 500GB Seagate
 7100.10)

I am now trying a simple switch of the internal power cables ... I was  
using the single plug one for my hard drive, and the double plug one  
for my ATI Radeon 9800Pro.

Logically, I should have been using them in  reverse ... which I am  
now doing, in the event of adding another drive on the dual layer sled.


 A Cable Select cable isn't working with it set as Master (which it
 should)? (again, it works with a 500GB Seagate 7100.10)
 Enough to say drive is bad?

 Power should be ok.

 How 'bout internal temp?  Could the drive be that much hotter etc?

I have the drive mounted on the top level of the double layer sled.  
Sits directly under the fan. Think this is the coolest position  
possible ...


 Do you have a different IDE cable you can try?

I have a different CS cable borrowed from my Digital Audio, which  
worked with the 500GB but not the 750GB one.

Currently trying the double ended power cable setup ... so far no drop  
out ... but ...



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Re: 750GB Seagate PATA is Dropping Out Again

2009-08-07 Thread Chance Reecher

No, if the drive works fine outside the QS, it is definitely not the
drive. It most likely is the ATA bus inside your QS, very likely since
you mentioned having problems with cable select. There's a SLIGHT
chance it could be power problems, but that's not very likely. Try
another drive inside the QS, see if it has the same problems.

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Bill Connellybillycarm...@verizon.net wrote:

 On Aug 1, 2:24 pm, Bill Connelly billycarm...@verizon.net wrote:

 In my QS 2002 Dual 1GHz under 10.5.7, my 750GB Seagate PATA is
 Dropping Out Again.



 Well it dropped out again. After moving it back from an external FW
 enclosure, it started up with multiple Bus Errors and eventually
 dropped off the Desktop.

 No PCI cards ... just the ATI Radeon 9800Pro.

 What can be said about a drive that works in an external FW enclosure,
 but drops off an internal mobo ATA channel?

 Not enough power to run it off the internal power supply? (does a
 750GB take more power than a 500GB Seagate?)

 Something wrong with the power cable? (it works with a 500GB Seagate
 7100.10)

 A Cable Select cable isn't working with it set as Master (which it
 should)? (again, it works with a 500GB Seagate 7100.10)

 Enough to say drive is bad?

 




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big hd

2009-08-07 Thread bkprolix

a reiend recently offered me a 280 gig drive for my sawtooth 400...
will I be able to partition this into 2 100 gig  1 80 gig to make it
usable? or will I have to buy something else to use it internally...
Instalation in an external firewire case is also an option...

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Re: 750GB Seagate PATA is Dropping Out Again

2009-08-07 Thread Bill Connelly


On Aug 7, 2009, at 10:41 AM, Chance Reecher wrote:


 No, if the drive works fine outside the QS, it is definitely not the
 drive. It most likely is the ATA bus inside your QS, very likely since
 you mentioned having problems with cable select. There's a SLIGHT
 chance it could be power problems, but that's not very likely. Try
 another drive inside the QS, see if it has the same problems.

Another Seagate PATA 7200.10 (500GB in lieu of the 750GB) had no  
problems.

Anything different about the hard disk channel use on an internal mobo  
vrs the external FW?

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Re: 750GB Seagate PATA is Dropping Out Again

2009-08-07 Thread Bill Connelly

On Aug 7, 2009, at 10:20 AM, Bill Connelly wrote:

 On Aug 7, 2009, at 2:46 AM, Dan wrote:

 How 'bout internal temp?  Could the drive be that much hotter etc?

 I have the drive mounted on the top level of the double layer sled.
 Sits directly under the fan. Think this is the coolest position
 possible ...

Could the drive overheat sitting too close to the fan casing? About  
1/3 of the harddrive is covered by this casing, about 1/8 above the  
drive case. Maybe I should move it to the lower level of the double  
decker sled?

 Do you have a different IDE cable you can try?

 I have a different CS cable borrowed from my Digital Audio, which
 worked with the 500GB but not the 750GB one.

 Currently trying the double ended power cable setup ... so far no drop
 out ... but ...

Is there any difference between the single plug power cable coming out  
of the bunch from the power supply, versus the double plug cable  
coming from the same bunch?

So far testing seems to show a good connection, but we'll need to wait  
and see.




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Re: 750GB Seagate PATA is Dropping Out Again

2009-08-07 Thread Chance Reecher

There is no difference between the cables coming out of your power
supply. They all connect at the same place inside it.


 Currently trying the double ended power cable setup ... so far no drop
 out ... but ...

 Is there any difference between the single plug power cable coming out
 of the bunch from the power supply, versus the double plug cable
 coming from the same bunch?




 




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Re: 750GB Seagate PATA is Dropping Out Again

2009-08-07 Thread Dan

At 10:20 AM -0400 8/7/2009, Bill Connelly wrote:
On Aug 7, 2009, at 2:46 AM, Dan wrote:
   At 10:15 PM -0400 8/6/2009, Bill Connelly wrote:
  On Aug 1, 2:24 pm, Bill Connelly billycarm...@verizon.net wrote:
  In my QS 2002 Dual 1GHz under 10.5.7, my 750GB Seagate PATA is
  Dropping Out Again.

  Well it dropped out again. After moving it back from an external FW
  enclosure, it started up with multiple Bus Errors and eventually
  dropped off the Desktop.

  What does it show in the system log?

I can't tell. I'll send Dan a copy.

I had started Spotlight again, since I had turned it off to simplify 
things, but I was getting a message like:
Aug  7 10:00:18 Moonstone-Art-Studio /Applications/Utilities/
Console.app/Contents/MacOS/Console[285]: installAutoFSMonitor: open 
failed

Turn Spotlight's indexing OFF.  Leave it OFF.  Simplify the problem. 
If you're having problems with a HD, the LAST thing you want is 
something perusing and WRITING to it all the time.  That's a sure way 
to corrupt things.

Looking thru the log you sent.

Jul 28 00:00:13 Moonstone-Art-Studio kernel[0]: IOATAController 
device blocking bus.

Not good.  That and other messages point to the data path between the 
bus and the drive being foo - iow, replace that cable etc.

There are so many write type failures in the log...  Can't really 
tell if it's corrupted or not, but I'm thinking it might not be a 
good idea to trust the data thereon anymore.  Once you get the 
hardware issues settled, erase then reload it from your backup.

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Re: 750GB Seagate PATA is Dropping Out Again

2009-08-07 Thread Bill Connelly


On Aug 7, 2009, at 2:07 PM, Dan wrote:


 At 10:20 AM -0400 8/7/2009, Bill Connelly wrote:
 On Aug 7, 2009, at 2:46 AM, Dan wrote:
 At 10:15 PM -0400 8/6/2009, Bill Connelly wrote:
 On Aug 1, 2:24 pm, Bill Connelly billycarm...@verizon.net  
 wrote:
 In my QS 2002 Dual 1GHz under 10.5.7, my 750GB Seagate PATA is
 Dropping Out Again.

 Well it dropped out again. After moving it back from an external FW
 enclosure, it started up with multiple Bus Errors and eventually
 dropped off the Desktop.

 What does it show in the system log?

 I can't tell. I'll send Dan a copy.

 I had started Spotlight again, since I had turned it off to simplify
 things, but I was getting a message like:
 Aug  7 10:00:18 Moonstone-Art-Studio /Applications/Utilities/
 Console.app/Contents/MacOS/Console[285]: installAutoFSMonitor: open
 failed

 Turn Spotlight's indexing OFF.  Leave it OFF.  Simplify the problem.
 If you're having problems with a HD, the LAST thing you want is
 something perusing and WRITING to it all the time.  That's a sure way
 to corrupt things.

Will do after it has indexed ... already started when I got your  
response ...


 Looking thru the log you sent.

 Jul 28 00:00:13 Moonstone-Art-Studio kernel[0]: IOATAController
 device blocking bus.

 Not good.  That and other messages point to the data path between the
 bus and the drive being foo - iow, replace that cable etc.

 There are so many write type failures in the log...  Can't really
 tell if it's corrupted or not, but I'm thinking it might not be a
 good idea to trust the data thereon anymore.  Once you get the
 hardware issues settled, erase then reload it from your backup.


Thank You for scanning the log.

Weird how I didn't get the dropout of the 500GB Seagate, but I only  
got it with the 750GB ... same changed out mobo ATA cable.

And since both drives performed well in the external FW enclosure, I  
suspect a problem with the 750GB circuitry? Make any sense? Possible  
the same drive would work on an external but not internally? I seem to  
remember someone suspecting externals possibly had better/stronger  
power flow, so one drive might not work internally, but would come  
alive externally.

It hasn't dropped out since moving it to the double plug power line,  
and I've run Intech's Integrity simultaneously  on 2 separate  
partitions, while running Activity Monitor continuously, while copying  
a DVD across the Network, and checking Mail.

Guess I should suspect possibility of faulty data on all partitions?

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Re: 750GB Seagate PATA is Dropping Out Again

2009-08-07 Thread Dan

At 2:52 PM -0400 8/7/2009, Bill Connelly wrote:
   I had started Spotlight again, since I had turned it off to simplify
  things, but I was getting a message like:
  Aug  7 10:00:18 Moonstone-Art-Studio /Applications/Utilities/
  Console.app/Contents/MacOS/Console[285]: installAutoFSMonitor: open
  failed

  Turn Spotlight's indexing OFF.  Leave it OFF.  Simplify the problem.
  If you're having problems with a HD, the LAST thing you want is
  something perusing and WRITING to it all the time.  That's a sure way
  to corrupt things.

Will do after it has indexed ... already started when I got your 
response ...

Check the system log.  If you see even ONE error being thrown stop 
the indexing NOW.

Weird how I didn't get the dropout of the 500GB Seagate, but I only 
got it with the 750GB ... same changed out mobo ATA cable.

Is everything equal between the two drives - same exact buffering and 
raw performance?  Could be that the newer drive is just able to push 
data faster, causing the marginal cable to fail.

And since both drives performed well in the external FW enclosure, I
suspect a problem with the 750GB circuitry? Make any sense?

It makes more sense to me that it's a marginal IDE cable.  Those 
types of errors... would be noticed while in the external box too, if 
it was the drive mechanism.

Guess I should suspect possibility of faulty data on all partitions?

yes.  At this point.

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a FW box with a HDD, and a DVD ROM/RW?

2009-08-07 Thread Mullin9

Do anyone make FireWire Enclosure that holds
a HDD, and a DVD ROM/RW



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Re: a FW box with a HDD, and a DVD ROM/RW?

2009-08-07 Thread John Martz

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Mullin9ddavidmul...@inbox.com wrote:
 Do anyone make FireWire Enclosure that holds
 a HDD, and a DVD ROM/RW

I'm not clear on what you are asking. Did you mean an enclosure that
holds both a HDD and a DVD burner simultaneously? If so, no, I've
never heard of anything like that. Other than a computer, of course
...

Or did you just mean an enclosure that could house either a HDD *or* a
DVD burner. In that case, yes, pretty much any 5.25 FW  enclosure
should be able to handle that.

Of course, both the HDD and the DVD burner would have to use the same
interface. Either both need to be PATA with a PATA enclosure or
(probably more useful in the future) everything would need to use
SATA.

Is that what you're asking about?

-irrational john

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Re: 750GB Seagate PATA is Dropping Out Again

2009-08-07 Thread Bill Connelly


On Aug 7, 2009, at 6:10 PM, Dan wrote:

 Is everything equal between the two drives - same exact buffering and
 raw performance?  Could be that the newer drive is just able to push
 data faster, causing the marginal cable to fail.

Everything is the same between the 2 Seagate 7200.10 PATA drives except:

Size  Heads/Disks

750GB  8/4
500GB  6/3

Pretty near the same data on both, except for the OS X 10.5.7 on the  
QS has the M-Audio drivers ( ... .?. ... ).

I was using the supplied IDE mobo cables (short 6 CS ones). Tried  
borrowing a replacement one from my Digital Audio.

I've switched to the longer 18 one supplied in my Retail Kit box,  
even though I didn't seem to be getting any errors after I switched to  
the double socket power line ...

Now I decided to CCC my backup 10.5.7 to the 750GB partition (done),  
and I have added back the M-Audio Delta 2496 PCI card.

Not sure about cloning back the other partitions: Apps, Docs, Tiger  
10.4.11 and Classic 9.2.2 ... probably so.

Seems to be working first few Startups. We'll see ... 1 kp after a  
Safe Boot, while running Activity monitor, but seems level now on  
Restart. Rebuilt kextcache on Restart, according to Activity Monitor.

thanks for your help.









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iBook G3/700 Ubuntu experiment

2009-08-07 Thread Arnel Tuazon

Well I thought I'd give my old iBook G3 some new life by installing Jaunty
Jackalope as I kept hearing about Ubuntu and how great it is.  All I can say
is if you're a regular Joe computer user, Linux is still not for you IMHO.
I don't understand how an OS (Linux) after all these years and with all the
past hype still seems like it's in the beta stages as an OS for the masses.
Ease of use it ain't (well maybe just for Ubuntu as I haven't tried YDL in 4
years).  

As for Ubuntu, even with all the apps that are apparently out there for it,
it really isn't meant for the PPC.  I thought with the end of Apple's
support for PPC that Linux was the way to go to get some extra life out of
my old Macs especially with web browsers and their plugins.

The OS did boot up the iBook much faster than Tiger and Panther, but aside
from using Open Office, Firefox was sluggish and I spent hours hunting down
plugins to make it work with certain sites i.e. Flash, Quicktime.  Also a
few plugins wouldn't install on a PPC. I still couldn't find any plugins for
Flash and Quicktime.  I even installed the ubuntu restricted packages.  I
got as a far as getting sound from movie trailers and a screen saver
effect instead of the video. I don't know, the whole experience was
frustrating at times and the old iBook felt sluggish with several apps.

Someone had recommended Ubuntu over YDL because of the amount of apps out
there.  I say most people only need a few of the apps any way to get what
they need done.  In the end I installed Tiger and the iBook is actually
working pretty smoothly.  I installed NeoOffice over MS Office to see how
much faster it is.  I am impressed with it.  I  may try YDL some time in the
future with maybe my G4/1.6GHz Powermac and see how that goes.

iBook G3/700 
648MB RAM
30GB hd



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How to get new wan card to work on G3 BW

2009-08-07 Thread dadofpscag

Purchased from tigerdirect a Sabrent wireless-G pci card.  I do not
understand how to get it to work.  What or where are the instructions
to get it to work?  All I see on the internet for this type of card is
to plug and play.  Shouldn't I at least see it as a piece of hardware
somewhere?
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