Hi Will S., Thanks for your feedback.
snip > The SIIG ATA card (made by Acard) can be used in any PCI slot in your > S900 machine. Sonnet ATA 100 & 133 cards are limited to the top two > slots but not your SIIG card... If your only running one drive it would > normally be set to Master and the drive on the end of the cable and not the > middle plug. Western digital has a " single drive" pin setting for running one > drive by it's self. Using the Master setting for one drive can cause problems > as can using the middle plug rather then the end plug... Have you tried > putting a Mac OS on the new drive to see if that works better then having the > OS on a separate SCIS drive? Your machine would also run faster using the IDE > drive for the OS. snip Do you think relocating the ATA card to a different PCI slot might make a difference? If you do, please advise me as to how to go about doing that. I had tried it but when I attempted to boot up from the IDE drive which was attached to the controller card now moved to a different slot I got a grey screen w/ just a cursor and nothing else. I was not able to boot up from a CD or the SCSI drive. Nothing on the SCSI chain was recognized. Finally I disconnected all external devices attached to the SCSI chain as suggested in the S900 manual and I was able to boot up from a floppy. Then I had to re-mount everything. It was quite a mess for awhile. What do you think I did wrong? Is there some adjustment I have to make before relocating the card? I have the drive jumper settings on the IDE drive set for neutral position and it is connected to the end plug of the ribbon cable. I did try DiskWarrior which successfully rebuilt my directory but the error message continued to come up when I resumed working w/ Flash. And as a result the directory gets messed up and has to eventually be re-built except one time it was so severly damaged even DiskWarrior couldn't rebuild it. I had to erase the partition. I did try running the OS from the IDE drive and working w/ Flash and my Flash files on the SCSI drive but I still got the error message. What is actually happening when a disk writes from disk cache to volume as opposed to just saving data? Elliot -- 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/> --------------------------------------------------------------- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
