>
>From: "Phillip L. Meza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> What
>happened was my keyboard ADB cable was pulled out abruptly (a
>Spike?) and the machine froze and I immediately restarted, upon
>restart..
You have now learned the hard way that ADB ,serial cables and SCSI
cables should only be plugged and unplugged with the machine off.
Sure you may get away with it once but at some point you will be
sorry. I have a Power Tower machine that was given to me because the
serial ports are both dead do to the neighbor kid unplugging the
printer while the machine was running. This doesn't seem to be your
problem since you are running the machine from another drive.
Have you tried updating the drivers? The drivers maybe corrupted on
the drives.You can do this without losing data on drives. In Apple
Drive setup open the app and at the top under Functions menu choose
Update Driver do not initialize as that would erase your data.
Intech's Hard drive speedtools lets you move the ATA/IDE
drives from the ATA PCI card which sees them as SCSI drives .To a Mac
with on board IDE and converts the drives to IDE with no loss of
data.So if you had access to another Mac this could be done. The fact
that Disk Warrior can't help makes me think this is a driver problem.
So I would first try the above . If this works to mount drives I
would then run Disk Warrior right away. Next thing to try. I would
download a copy of Express Pro Tools from www.attotech.com it is
free. This is one of the main bench marking tools used by many pros.
It also has a mount disk command. This enabled me to save the data on
a partition which refused to mount by any other means.(I had been
messing around with Linux) It does how ever become taken over by the
ATTO disk driver which worked fine,but you can't go back to an Apple
driver without loss of data. Intech's driver can be used to take over
the drive with no loss of data.( I don' belive ATTO disk drivers
would work with OSX but not sure) I hope one of the above will take
care of your problem . If it doesn't you may well have to give up on
saving your data and initialize the drives and start over. Best of
luck.
>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?
If your Power Supply had failed you would I think know it. You would
have needed a new one to get the machine up again. However I have 4
hard drives and 1 CDplayer inside and running on my machine with no
problems. 2 on the Sonnet tempo ATA PCI card both Master. The other 2
are old SCSI drives on the internal SCSI bus. One is running OSX and
the other Classic for OSX. I did notice that when I hooked up a
second CD/DVD drive which gave me a total of 6 drives things did slow
down a bit. I got the feeling I was running out of power from the
power supply. So I now limit my machine to 5 internal drives and have
no problems.Data recovery services are outrageously expensive. Beyond
most private users budget. There is some software which can be used
for this.I think it is shareware. Perhaps someone else knows the name
of it.
"The intent is to load OSX on my machine." I saw your post on the
unsupported OSX list and have intended to respond with a couple of
ideas. I will reread your post there and try to get a response posted
there.best of luck Will S
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