At 21:00 -0800 12/31/2002, David R wrote:
>So anyway, I'm killing two birds with one stone by upgrading my IDE card. >But if anybody knows of any pitfalls/incompatibilities I may face with a >faster ATA card on an s900 with a G3 450 upgrade (and future G4), I sure >would like to hear them. I just wanted to follow up on my report of my problem with my DVDROM drive on the VST card. It appears that the problem was caused by a dieing hard drive. I spent a good bit of today (in between socializing) getting the doomed drive up long enough to run a quick incremental backup on it and then pulled it and replaced it with an identical (except the new one works) drive I had on hand. Now my DVD-ROM drive is working fine again. I guess that's what I get for not wanting to go to the trouble of fully trouble-shooting the DVD-ROM drive problems. I might have caught the dieing hard drive sooner--though I can't imagine how. The DVD-ROM is on the VST UltraTek/66 IDE card. The dieing hard drive was one drive in a SCSI RAID on a 2940UW card. Why would anyone think that a problem DVD-ROM drive means that a hard drive on a different bus is going out? The only clue I had is that when the DVD-ROM would freeze up, there was a clunk sound like a hard drive makes when it suddenly stops spinning. And the failure mode for this dead hard drive is to suddenly stop spinning in the middle of operation, and then spin up again. Usually the machine freezes when the drive clunks to a stop. So the clunking sound was from the hard drive. I thought it was an internal shutter in the DVD-ROM or something. So something about reading the DVD-ROM drive was triggering this fault in the SCSI hard drive I guess. Weird. Anyway, we can knock one weird incompatibility off the list for the VST card. This doesn't appear to have been it's doing. Jeff Walther -- 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/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
