[G4] DRIVE PROBLEM

T. Brown / groucho btgroucho at earthlink.net
Tue Mar 18 09:22:55 PST 2003


>> From: 	Jim Blokland
>>
>> 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.

Have you tried updating the firmware on your Sonnet card ?

Another shot.
I would try unseating the card, boot up without it, shutdown then reset 
the CUDA. Then install the card, then reboot with the drives.

What utility did you use to format your drives ?

groucho



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