I did not have the Atapi. I had swapped drives around and added an internal zip and Jaz at the same time. It freaked out the 900. I ended up loosing the info on the drive in question just for time sake. The 900 has a sensitive Mother B Seems to not carry alot of boot stress. I added an ATTO fibre chanel card which really taxed the board beyond limits. Had to boot with the card out of the fibre chain then once stable hot plug it back in and then boot the fibre chanel network.(the card was never un-pluged just the wire link). Big pain so I eliminated it from the net and utilized the 900s as support stations for mild Photoshop, quark etc. I am still having good luck with the Newer Card though. I know it is outdated and they are dead but it works still.
Good luck! George George Murphy The Printers Supply.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] P/F - 770-947-1851 Visit Our Web Site! www. theprinterssupply.com -------Original Message------- From: SuperMacs List Date: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 9:24:21 PM To: SuperMacs List Subject: Re: [SM] Is my Mac turning into a peecee? > I had the exact same message come up on my PM9600 with a VST ATA66 PCI > card and an ATAPI ZIP drive. Tom, Intriguing that you had both the VST ATA/66 card and an Atapi Zip. I do wonder if there is a common thread here. But I again tried disconnecting the Atapi Zi before boot up and it didn't seem to make the "This Disk is unreadable by this computer. Do you want to initialize it? Dos 720" alert go away. > I have seen this before. on my 900 w/NewerTecG3 card. Does it happen when > you boot from CD? You might try running Norton or similar. If it persists > try one thing at a time like removing the IDE drive from the system if you > are using a scsi to boot on or remove it and boot from CD. You may have to > try to recover the disk. Replaced the battery lately? I found that simple > things like battery can cause maj havoc in disk tracking and allocation > tracking. Just a thought. I also found it a good practice to run utilities > after major changes like removing drive, adding memory etc. Just seems to > get a better and current account of things. Well I used to have a Newertech G3 300 card in here but not for about 4 months. I've run utilities, rebuilt desktop, zapped, cudad. Battery is relatively new. I guess I just need to try some different things and see what might work. It is interesting that others here have come across this before. George, did you have an Atapi Zip or VST ATA/66 card as well? I do wonder what would happen if I allowed it to initialize? If this issue is related to the VST IDE Card, I'd be somewhat concerned that it might be sensing the IDE drive and end up wiping that. The notice seems to occur just as the main ide drive is about to mount, then when I tell the alert to Eject, the rest of the desktop shows up. So right now the mystery prevails. Dave -- 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! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> 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]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com -- 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! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> 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]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
