A while back my Sonnet ATA striped (2) WD 40gb array took a dump. Western Digital according to the invoice the replacement was shipped on Sept. 19-02.
I don't remember exactly when the replacement showed up, I think it was a week ago last Friday. I have spent the remaining time rebuilding the lost data on this thing. On Oct.-01-2002 the thing crapped out again after I just finished rebuilding it. What happens is on boot up depending on whether you hold the shift key down, it will hang after drawing the startup screen icons for speed disk and XLR8. It just hangs. If you hold down the shift key it will draw the finder and put the time in the menu bar and hang without drawing any icons on the desktop. This is exactly what it did before when it crapped out. The S900 is completely unusable. It won't boot from any drive once it polls the drives. I am now using the computer because I disconnected the data cable from the Sonnet card and this junk array can't hang. My S900 boots up just fine under SCSI power. Does anyone have any ideas? This setup worked OK for 10 months although I would have to run either Disk Doctor or the Apple HD utility to fix screwed up directory blocks which would probably happen once a week. My S900 runs on: System 8.6 Its got the original HD and another 9GB scsi. 416MB of ram. an XLR8 Processor card with a 400MHz G3 an Apple 24x SCSI Cd rom which is almost useless and a 40-12-48 VeloCD by TDK which I just added. A VooDoo 3000 video card and an IXTV card with a PCI USB card in slot 4. What causes these WD 40Gigs to die? I don't think the problem is the Sonnet card, the VeloCD is the Master Drive on the second bus and it works. Another question. I am using Toast 4.1.1 and (I'm not thrilled on upgrading to another version, why spend the money if it works. I don't see any reason to run Os X without buy a new computer and this computer works fine except for this stupid ATA striped array). Supposedly the VeloCD will run at 40x burning CDs. So far I have only got it to go at 16x. Is this a limitation of Toast 4.1.1 or is it PC hardware not working optimally on a Mac or S900? Thanks, Mark Murphy -- 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
