Hello Listers, My setup... I am presently running OS9.1, XLR8 G3 400MHZ (overclocked to 450), I have ram slots filled w/128mb sticks (1gig) interleaved . 3 IDE drives WD 20 gig (5 partitions) & 1 IBM 20 gig (5 partitions) add'l WD 2gig Slaved and not partitioned... all drives are formatted HFS Extended (Used either Intech Speedtools or Apple Setup Utility) . I have 4 Video cards on hand, a twin turbo (8), Ultimate REZ, Formac Pro 3, ATI Radeon Mac Edition (In use).
Here is the scenario, and maybe someone will enlighten and help me. I've "Lost" the 2 IDE drives attached to an ATA 66 Tempo card in my S900. The IBM 60GXP (Single) and the WD Caviar (Master), both drives were partitioned (5) and a third drive 3 gig WD Caviar (Slaved) as a scratch disk. All drives total 11 "disks" on the desktop and each has a specific function... Specific Apps , Data and OS9.1. What happened was my keyboard ADB cable was pulled out abruptly (a Spike?) and the machine froze and I immediately restarted, upon restart..It booted ok but what occurred from that point on...no drives visible on the desktop, no finder, no apple menu, only the "clock" could be seen and it did not display time correctly. I spent last weekend in "recovery", and I'm writing from that very machine. I've done everything I can think of to try to recover the (2) 20 gig drives nothing has worked, stripped the machine & reassembled, zapped PRAM Software...Norton...Techtool...DiskWarrior...I've reattached and they are "visible" with SCSI Probe, but won't mount, I would like to recover the data on both drives, if that's not possible, I would at least like to reformat, if I can get to that point. I've determined that the Tempo card was damaged, upon loading the OS onto the "Scratch" disk, I got a "Type 128 error..w/Bomb Icon in the dialogue box" I replaced the card, error has not surfaced again. I am now running from that scratch disk & an external SCSI drive for the time being, and have decided to purchase another S900 to try to resurrect those drives. I'm hoping to "Mount" on a"Fresh"machine... Question#1 ...did a "Spike" occur or did my power supply fail at some point? I think I've read somewhere that "Slaving" is not always successful on this machine, the power supply is not "Large enough"? Question#2 ...has anyone used a data recovery service? they seem very expensive. Alternatives? Question#3 ...any tricks for mounting/troubleshooting that I'm not aware of? The intent is to load OSX on my machine, I was at the time trying to load OSX and was given info from the unsupported OSX list that my CRDW is the thing holding me back from succeeding, running Xpostfacto in Verbose mode gave me that feedback. I don't have the original CDROM that was installed, I replaced it with a Yamaha burner the 2100S, the culprit...so I hope to accomplish two things, with the "New" machine. I've learned a lot from this forum, its great...Please any thoughts would be appreciated, Phillip -- -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | PowerON Computer Services <http://www.poweron.com> REPLACEMENT PARTS in STOCK Drives, CD-ROMs, RAM, Processors, Power Supply <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> 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/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
