[G4] Re: AGP hard drive question

[Hector I. Macedo]

I would suspect you have a memory chip that Panther is not happy  
with. Check that.


On Feb 7, 2006, at 5:52 PM, JayB wrote:

> First-
>
> Thanks to all who've offered help.  I'm truly grateful.
> A new twist to my little deal:
>
> First, for clarity; I have a AGP 500 upgraded to 1gig via Sonnet  
> CPU.  I have TWO 18gig Ultra SCSI internals (and several external  
> drives).
>
> One of the internal drives was a OS-X bootable drive with Photoshop  
> and one other OSX ap.  The other drive is OS 9.2.x and lots of new  
> and old aps and data.
>
> I decided to update the OS-X drive to 3.9.x and simply decided to  
> wipe it clean, do a fresh install and re-load the PS and other ap.   
> 3/4 of the way thru loading the 1st Panther Disk, it froze.  I  
> forced a shutdown and tried again, same results.  I decided to do a  
> more serious erase (zeros and ones).  1/8th of the way through it  
> froze.  I had to do an other forced shutdown.  When I tried to boot  
> the drive, it couldn't be found.  I thought it was dead.  I tried a  
> couple of different CD boot up and ran TechTool.  No luck.
>
> After trying everything to resurrect this drive as last ditch  
> before giving it either it's last rights or using the FLOOR tool, I  
> got it to  mount  and initialize somehow.
>
> Now, I've initialized from Panther Disk Utilities (cd boot), tried  
> partitioning, tried to install Jaguar, 2 dif sets of Panther (orig  
> and my back up CDs), and each time, the process stops near the end  
> of the first CD install.  Tech Tool, Disk First Aid, and Disk  
> Warrior don't think there's anything wrong.  I also tried to  
> install from another external CD.  No luck.
>
> Any guesses or other things to check?
>
> I'm sure I'll install an IDE drive later, but for now- I just  
> thought I'd exhaust all possibilities.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jay
>
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