[G4] Hard Drive issues

[Ben Weedon]

Hello,

I recently installed a second ATA hard drive (Excelstor ESJ360 60gb 7200rpm
ATA100 OEM IDE)in my Quicksilver 733 G4. The new drive is partitioned into
two 30 Gb blocks. It has been initialised and I can read and write to and
from it.

However, since I installed it I experience frequent partial freezes, where
the mouse cursor moves about happily, but can't click on anything. The
emergency program exit (command  + option + escape) also doesn't do
anything. I have to do a forced reboot.

I have run Techtool Lite on the system, zapped the PRAM, deleted and rebuilt
the desktop, and run Norton disk doctor on it, but there's nothing showing
up as odd.

Does anyone have any ideas on what may be causing this? Would an incorrectly
installed second drive be the reason? Even better would be a solution!

Thanks

Ben



-----Original Message-----
From: Power Macintosh G4 List [mailto:G4 at lists.themacintoshguy.com]On
Behalf Of Wade Perry
Sent: 20 February 2004 21:30
To: Power Macintosh G4 List
Subject: Re: [G4] harddrive


Snip

> From: "Ben Weedon" <ben.weedon at beestings.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [G4] harddrive
>
> I would be interested in a foolproof web guide on how to install a second
> hard drive, as I just recently bought one, and it should arrive tomorrow.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
> Ben


Ben,

You did not mention the model of Mac.  Go ahead and try this link. Good
information regardless.


http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/IDE/add_2nd_drive/index.html
--
Wade A. Perry


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