To fix deteriorating access to my hard drive a couple of weeks ago, I got and followed through on advice on buying a new drive (and am very satisfied with all the advice and my resulting purchase).
I've successfully installed, initialized, and partitioned a 40GB Seagate with AHARD card and installed OS9.0 on 2 of the partitions. Unfortunately, the original problem occurs using the new drive as well. So, either the presence of the old HD with its problems is affecting something else, or the problem is caused by something else. Symptoms are varied but are becoming predictable now. Anyone have an idea what this is?: SYMPTOMS: 1.temporary freeze during which there is an audible clicking pattern -- always 4 clicks, then a pause of equal length, 4 clicks, pause, 4 clicks... 2.during the hangup the clock face or pointer is alternately movable and unmovable in about 10 second intervals. Clicking it will result in the proper action occuring, but not until the freeze period comes to an end. WHAT DOES NOT WORK: a)Startup - hangs once for 3min 15sec just before desktop background, and again for 2min just before control strip appears and pointer becomes functionsl. b)Shutdown - hangs for 3min 30sec minutes just before screen darkens. c)hangs opening Unstuffit (on new drive) to open an installer, d)hangs on the Preparing to Install box when installing ATI from an installer copied from zip backup. e)opening the old SCSI HD window hangs for longer than I will wait and if I restart I have to hold option after 'Welcome' to force all open windows to close on booting. f)Most significant is the fact that the symptoms are exactly the same when I boot from the OS9 CD. It hangs up 3min 15sec between the disk icon and the menu bar. After the desktop icons appear it hangs for 2min+ until the pointer becomes functional. WHAT WORKS: a)The external Zip drive works fine, and moving files to and from the desktop almost always works ok. Some copying to Zip has hungup -- probably when access to something beyond the finder is involved. b)exchanging files from zip (CD-Rom Ext & CP and previous preference files)with new System Folder files works fine. c)As I said, I had no problem setting up the new drive -- zeroing, partitioning, and installing OS9. d)there have been no error boxes, and no crashes associated with this problem. QUESTIONS: 1.If the old hard drive is damaged but still operating at the end of the SCSI chain, could that cause the same problems it experiences on a CD in the CD-ROM drive on the same chain, and ultimately also to the IDE drive because the computer erroneously recognizes it as a SCSI device? 2.If I wanted to eliminate any potential influence of the old SCSI HD, could I just unplug its power connector? Will it still function as SCSI termination, or do I have to terminate the CDROM that would be last in line then. 3.Is it correct to assume that since this happens booting from the OS9 CD and from the OS9 newly installed on the new drive, that this is not caused by a corrupted Finder/Finder Preferences/System File? 4.If it is not that and/or not a damaged hard drive, what then? Thanks in advance for any forthcoming assistance! Michael __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.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
