ATI lost a customer...

[zhmmy harper]

I'm sure they are all wiping the tears from their eyes...

I hadn't lost the drive after all, even though it didn't show up on any 
utility and no icon on the desktop.

It finally showed up again after I removed the ATI Xclaim 3D Plus and put 
the ATI Rage Pro 128 back in its original slot.

FYI:  Don't bother with the ATI Xclaim 3D Plus, if you use X.  For whatever 
reason they might have, neither ATI nor Apple supports the ATI Xclaim 3D 
Plus, even after I upgraded to 10.3.3.  They seem to have included every 
driver except that one.  Really ticks me off because I bought the card on 
eBay just for the video out.

For my revenge I will look for cards in the future other than ATI.
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>LOL with tears in my eyes.
>Well, I thought I would trick the G4.  I put the original ATI Rage Pro 128
>(OEM) in another slot and connected my monitor to it instead so the display
>would be legible.  My reasoning was that then I could boot to my Panther
>drive and install 10.3.3 which theoretically installs the correct driver 
>for
>the ATI Xclaim 3D Plus.
>
>Now I have totally lost the Panther drive!!!!  Yuck!!
>I have used DiskWarrior, TechTool Pro 3, Norton 6, SCSIProbe 5.2 and Disk
>Firstaid from the OS9 install disk.  None of them can even SEE the disk!
>
>Its as if I had disconnected the cable to the drive, which I'm going to
>check right now.  (I don't see how I could have accidentally done that but
>you never know until you check.)
>
>Do any of you know what mysteries are at work here??
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