Something in my Sonnet ATA 100 and 2 striped Western Digital 40GB raid system has taken leave.
After much trial and error, I can get my computer running by removing the Sonnet ATA 100 card. My S900 on bootup (I have a schizophrenic system, half SCSI and Half ATA. I use the SCSI for normal stuff and the ATA side to burn CD Roms.) with the SCSI OEM drive would get to the point where it polled the available drives and then hang. Nothing would get this thing going except putting in an old Apple 7.6 system install disk and booting from the CD rom by holding down the "c" key. All of the drives in the s900 are System 8.6 HFS+. So the desktop would be there, but all the drives would be locked and because 7.6 can't read HFS+. So there are no applications to run. No access to any of the system controls other than startup disk which works fine until its time to poll the drives and then nothing works. How do you tell what's bad with the Sonnet Card? If you put power to the drives the computer won't run past polling the drives. I bought this crap last December. I have never had a SCSI drive go bad and I'm on my fifth Apple computer now. This S900 works fine now without the ATA stuff. Any help would be appreciated. Mark Muphy -- 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
