<<I just installed a new WD HD (80 gigs) on my ATA 66 card in my
S900. (G4-450) When I had the new drive installed as the master and
the old 30 gig installed as the slave, the computer booted up from the
scsi drive with OS9.2 on it (I know the master/slave only works with 10)
and recognized the old drive set up as slave, but not the new 80 gig set
us as master. I took the old drive out and set the new drive up as
single. Now the computer won't even chime. I reset the cuda, and tried
zapping the pram. When I tried to zap the pram there were no chimes.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.>>
AND
<<My card is an Ultratek VST ATA/66. It was in the S900 when I bought it last
summer. I've had a 30
gig WD drive on it running 10.2, and a Sony CD-RW. All was working fine until
I tried to install the
new 80 gig WD drive. Now the machine won't even chime.>>
AND
<<Guess I should have mentioned that the machine still has a 2gig scsi
drive in it with 9.2 on it. That is the drive from which I am trying to
start.>>
Mike,
I also have recent WD 80gig HDDs (one 2MB cache model and one 8MB cache
model) attached to a VST UltraTek66 card (firmware v2.2.4, PCI slot 2 in S900,
OS9.2.2 on stock SCSI drive). No problems. Here's my thoughts. You didn't say
outright that you initialized and formatted the new WD disk. Did you? That
question has to be asked eventually, no insult intended!!
Absence of chime on a previously good machine would make me wonder about the
processor card or the ram. In this case, have you tried to unseat and then
re-seat the processor card? It's very easy to bump it when fiddling with PCI
cards in the upper slots and this can disturb the contacts enough to cause your
symptom.
If that doesn't work, disconnect all IDE cables from the VST card & try to
boot.
HTH,
Bruce
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