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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 23:26:29 -0500 Subject: [SM] Still having problem w/ Flash and IDE drive on S900 From: " " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi,
First, thanks to Paul Corsa for recommending that I buy DiskWarrior. All of
a sudden a partition on my IDE drive became unreadable and neither DiskAid
or Norton could fix it. I had DiskWarrior on order and it came two days
later. I ran it on the partition and it worked like a charm rebuilding the
directory and resurrecting all my files and applications that were on the
partition. A truly impressive disk-repair program. (Thanks also to the
others who replied to my post concerning upgrading to OS 9.2.2).
DiskWarrior did not, however, solve the problem of the message that keeps
popping up when I run Flash. It says... There is a problem with the disk
"partition name". Some information may have been lost. Check any
recently-used files for data loss, and use a disk-repair program on the
disk. Has anyone ever seen this message? If I leave Flash active and log
onto the internet, the message will continue to pop up until I quit out of
Flash (even though I'm not actually working within the application). It
never happened on my old SCSI drive running OS 8.6. I installed the IDE
drive and OS 9.1 (now 9.2.2) at the same time so I don't know if it's the
drive or the new OS or both. I posted a query on the Macromedia Flash Forum
but no one, so far, has replied. I am so frustrated at this point and have
no idea what to try. I've contacted Western Digital but they say it sounds
like an OS problem and haven't been able to help me. I tried narrowing it
down to an offending extension but nothing showed up. Anyone have any ideas?
System S900 running OS 9.2.2 G4 processor 1 Gb ram 2 Gb SCSI drive 120 Gb IDE drive Ultra ATA 133/100 Controller
Thanks for any suggestions.
Elliot
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This sounds familiar.
I don't know what ATA card you have but I have a Sonnet 100 in mine. I have had variously, one or two WD 40gigs and one WD 120gig drives in my s900.
What usually happens in the drive just disappears. It only shows up in I think Hard Disk Tool Kit, but it won't format. The only thing I have found that works, and It only works for a while is to take the computer apart. Unplug the WD drive and plug it back in. It usually works after that.
I did try partitioning the 120 for a while. I used to get these strange problems. The drive would act corrupted and I'd get a warning. Whenever I tried to use Norton Utilities on it Norton would just seize up and I would be forced to reboot the computer.
I gave up and put the 120 in a firewire enclosure and run it on my G4. I didn't even have to reformat it.
Presently, my s900 has a 40giger in it that has disappeared, and I will probably take it apart and put it back together again to get it to work.
I have heard there a problems with Western Digital drives, but I don't know what they might be, unless I'm dealing with it now.
I don't know what the solution is, I just didn't want you to think you were alone.
Mark Murphy
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