Your EIDE drive may have an ID of 0, but what BUS is it on. It should be
on a seperate BUS from the SCSI drive in your machine, thus the two
drives being id'd as "0" do not conflict. I'd startup from an OS9.1
CD(put the CD in the drive, go to control panels-startup drive amd
select it, then hit restart). Once you've started from the CD you can go
to Utilities and run Dick First Aid on your EIDE drive from the CD,
since it no longer is the startup drive. This may fix your problem. You
may have to do this several times. If it doesn't work I'd buy Disk
Warrior. I just don't trust the Norton disk utilities- they often mess
up drives the other software fixes. After the Repairs are madi I'd back
up the drive, just in case you have to reformat it. Paul C
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Hi,
I've been running a "newly" installed Western Digital EIDE drive w/ OS9.1
installed on one of its partitions for a little over a year now on my S900
and have been getting increasingly frequent displayed messages that say
"There is something wrong w/ the disk "name". Some information may have been
lost. Check any recently-used files for data loss, and use a disk-repair
program on the disk." It names alternately, two of the partitions on the
EIDE drive, the one containing the system and the one containing the
application I'm using at the time (although it seems mostly to occur when
I'm running Flash for some reason). I've run Norton on the drive but nothing
shows up as being wrong. Tonight I went to Apple System Profiler and saw
that the EIDE drive (which I boot up from) has the same ID# (0) as the
original drive that came w/ the computer, a 2GB Quantum Fireball that also
has the ID# of 0. I understand that this can cause problems in performance
and wonder if the two devices having the same SCSI ID# may be the source of
this repeatedly displayed message and maybe some other degraded performance
that I'm not even aware of. I would like to change the ID# of the original
drive that came w/ the S900 but don't know how to go about it, what to
change it to or if changing it will create any other problems that I am not
considering. Can anyone advise me how to proceed at this point? Thanks in
advance for any help anyone can offer.
Elliot
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