on 23.01.2003 21:06, Paul Shand at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am currently wondering four things. > > 1. Did the Cheap Fan in the Lower Fan Bay pollute the 12V power > supply to the Hard Drives and cause some damage?
Possibly, but not likely. Only if the current were disturbed enough to corrupt the flow of data to and from the drive. > > 2. Was XLR8's 2.6.1 software with Write Through disabled temporarily, > do the damage? Not directly, but a crash at a critical moment of disk access could, particularly if it happened repeatedly. > > 3. Was using the Slow Bus for the CD-ROM drive and the Zip 100 and > having the Hard Drives placed on the Fast Bus responsible? Absolutely not. > > 4. Could the Gig of RAM contained some bad module and because it is > interleaved with the XLR8 have done the Damage? Remotely possible, but then again, with routine maintenance, this would not accumulate to anything so catastrophic. Accumulated errors caused by bad RAM and crashes would be the culprit, regardless of whether it were interleaved, and totally independent of the CPU upgrade. > > In Tech Tool Deluxe booted from the CD-ROM Drive with 9.1 the Hardware > all Passed the Test. The recoverable Drive showed but the now dead > drive did not show. > > Any ideas? > It's quite possible your subject line says it all; it was the end of the line for that drive, and everything else is just coincidence. Drives on their way out usually give some warning--clicking, freezing, random files disappearing--unless there is some major trauma like when a ball peen hammer, a lightning strike, or a pint is involved. There may simply have been dust or humidity contanimation causing bad blocks that finally reached a critical number. The best you can do is to keep trying with different utilities to complete the reformatting of the drive and then update to the driver of your choice. It's also possible that the circuit board failed at a critical moment and a replacement could revive it. Since there's no data on to recover from the drive, it hardly seems worth the effort. -- Paul F. Henegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
