[G4] DRIVE PROBLEM

[Jim Blokland]

On Tuesday, March 18, 2003, at 12:22  PM, T.Brown / groucho wrote:

>
>>> 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

Groucho, thanks for the suggestions.

There is no firmware update for the Sonnet Tempo RAID 133 as of yet.  I 
get the same problem in OSX.2.4 and OS 9.  I used the Apple Disk 
Utility in OSX to format the drives.  I'll give your other suggestion a 
shot -- can you remind me what the CUDA is, and where the button is?

Best, JIM.
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JIM BLOKLAND
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