[G4] DRIVE PROBLEM

[w appling]

RE:that was a repeating event in my machine prior to jag,it was cased 
when internet explorer,became corrupted,or when i installed later 
versions of netscape


On Monday, March 17, 2003, at 09:35  PM, Jim Blokland wrote:

> Hello:
>
> I've got two Western Digital 80 GB drives (2MB cache) on a Sonnet 
> Tempo RAID 133 card, in my Dual 500 G4.  They are raided together, and 
> NOT used as a boot drive.  Sometimes when the computer has been on for 
> a while (it gets warm in there), when I restart, I get the spinning 
> wheel with the grey Apple, and then the 'circle with a line through 
> it' no-go.  Once the computer has sat shut down for awhile, everything 
> boots up fine.
>
> I believe the OS goes through a system-wide check before continuing 
> the boot sequence, and it sees something funky about those drives 
> (this never happened before I installed the RAID array).  Anyone have 
> any ideas whether it's the heat, some kind of 'time-out' with the WD 
> drives -- or the Tempo RAID card acting up?
>
> If you're running a similar config, your help would especially be 
> appreciated.
>