my Acard/66 card supports OSX and works perfectly. sell your 33 and get a new one. On Friday, November 1, 2002, at 12:33 AM, Rik Gresham wrote:
> Help! > > OK: the situation. > > I have an 8500 bearing Sonnet with Jaguar 10.2 installed (I am > downloading the upgrader to 10.2.1 now) and an unsupported, > Acard-rommed ATA33 card that has volumes attatched but of course not > recognized. Aside from that the system is up and running like a dream- > it's like using a new mac almost! I haven't felt this way since I > upgraded to a IIcx from a Classic... > > But anyway: I get the wise idea to throw the ATA card and my main ata > drive, a 30 gig Western Digital that is mostly my 14 gig of mp3s into > an extra 7500 packing XLR8 and 9.1 and network them together. Initial > indications are great- I can connect to the drive, read and write files > from it, etc. Things are looking up untill I set iTunes 3 (on my main > mac with Jaguar on it) to start adding all the mp3's to the playlist. > First I notice that only 8 gig of them are added-almost at random. I > try resetting the permissions from the Finder on the whole drive- to be > read and write to absolutely everyone period in case there is some kind > of permissions error. Trying again I get no different response. I go > back and start adding them folder by folder, and most initial > indications look good. I have most of them in the main mp3's folder, > but some rogues are in the iTunes Library folder, and I notice that > some of the subfolders there claim that they are empty when I know that > this is not the case- I have been in 9.1 by boot today, listening to > the mp3s, so I know that they are there. But I figure that since it is > only 2 or 3 of the folders' worth I can do without. I add what I can > (about 90% of them in this set) and start adding the ones from the main > mp3 folder. > I start noticing a striking and amazingly disturbing bug/feature: > Although a vast magority of the folder-by-folder additions work some do > not... I open the first offending folder, noticing that the icons are > all the grey outlines of round-cornered squares, and that (does anyone > remember the first releases of System 7?) upon clicking on them they > DISAPPEAR. As in totally gone. Shocked to the core of my being I close > the window and check the size of the folder with 'Get Info' and find > that it is not any smaller at all- opening the folder again reveals the > file has returned! I try adding them file by file but they of course > dissapear upon clicking on them. I move the offending folder out of > the original folder and onto the root level of the drive in question > (all of this is over the network, to clarify) and all of a sudden the > files, sizes and all, reappear. I move them back and they are able to > be added with no problems. This continues for a bit, and I am able to > repeat this tactic once more. The third time I try to do this, > however, it fails. I move the folder to the root level of the drive, I > open and close it 28 times, I even try copying it to a different disc > (Local, not networked at all) and I am returned a "Sorry, this > operation could not be completed because an unexpected error occurred > (Error code -50)." I get an error code -22 when I try to copy them > (not move the folder, coy it) to a different folder on the same disk. > The dialogue box says that it is "Copying 14 items to "Wsr" so I know > on some level the OS knows that they are there. But what is preventing > me from seeing all of them? And how do I get them back? They are > actually physically there, this is known to me, as I can boot in > Classic and see them and even play them in iTunes 2, but why not in > Jaguar and iTunes 3? > > And this problem is not even confined to just mp3s- Most if not all of > the classic-only apps and documents on the server side drive have the > same grey square icon and refuse to respond to clicks or anything in > any way excepting dissapearance. What can I do here? Will the > Software Updates currently installing fix this problem? Or have I > smacked into the final brick wall with this computer that will make me > sell my car or something to get the money up to get a new mac? I would > love to think that I have found a solution as I have almost this exact > same setup running at work, the only exception being that it is a 933 > G4 running Jaguar and a 400 G4 running 9.1, and this symptomality and > problem is absolutely not manifest. What can I do? Do I have any > options? > > > All apologies for the long post, I just wanted to make sure that I > clearly described the issue and was as detailed as possible. > Thanks in advance to anyone who reads this, and double so to those who > can help! > > Later, Rik > > > -- > Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> > > Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > > Unsupported OS X list info > <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> > --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; > Send list messages to: <mailto:UnsupportedOSX@;mail.maclaunch.com> > To unsubscribe, email: > <mailto:UnsupportedOSX-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> > For digest mode, email: > <mailto:UnsupportedOSX-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> > Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lemlists.com> > Archive > <http://www.mail-archive.com/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- >> The Think Different Store > http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:UnsupportedOSX@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:UnsupportedOSX-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:UnsupportedOSX-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lemlists.com> Archive <http://www.mail-archive.com/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
