Those other P harnesses are to supply power to additional devices if
they were to be installed, such as another hard drive. So no, they
aren't connected to anything right now and that is fine.
Do you have another mac or mac clone that you can hook the hard drive
from the starmax up to to see if it can be read from that machine? If
you can determine whether the drive has gone bad you can decide what to
do with the data on the external La Cie. You could take the LaCie out
of the enclosure and install it in the IDE slot on the motherboard, and
then she could still use the USB method. (The drives inside those
enclosures have IDE ports on them, the enclosures are what change the
type of port and give it a plug to plug into the wall instead of one of
those P harness things).
Kari
On Sep 5, 2005, at 7:30 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My Starmax 3000/160 has died, I think. It cannot connect to the hard
drive. It flashes a green light under the drive while the question
mark appears on the monitor. I can open with the CD but disk repair
tells me there is no hard drive. When I check the system profiler it
also says no hard drive mounted. This was a sudden occurrence, no
warning. One minute it is working, the next, nothing. I have all the
data backed up on a La Cie external hard drive. The only reason I have
kept the machine at all is because my wife has years of school stuff
(she's a middle school teacher) on it. She got a Dell laptop because
that is more compatible with school machines but, of course, all the
data was formatted on the Starmax. The problem now is that the La Cie
has a SCSI connection and the way she had been transferring data was
with a USB jump drive. I put USB ports on the Starmax so she could
transfer directly. She can access the data on the La Cie and revise
things, but now there is no way of transferring it since the Starmax
doesnt't recognize the jump drive and the La Cie has no USB
connection. I have made the La Cie the start up disk so she can at
least look at her files. She, my wife, is maddenly procastinating when
it comes to computer 'things to do".
Anyway, I have taken the cover off the Starmax (that's how I noticed
the green light in sync with the question mark), and did a long needed
cleaning. My question is this. I noticed two harnesses, one marked P3
and the other marked P8. neither is attached to anything. A harness
marked P4 is plugged into the back of the CD-Rom drive, and another
marked P5 is plugged into the back of the hard drive. Question, should
these other two be plugged in or are they just there for options I did
not get? Also, is there anyway to make a USB port for the La Cie
external hard drive. At least then she could transfer her data from
the back up. Thanks.
Jim Scarborough Kirk
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