>I'm helping out a friend with a 2400. He wants to use a 6 gig ATA drive
>pulled from a G3 which we put into and Apricorn external case. It
>runs off power from the PCMCIA card connection. The external drive
>works just fine with my G3 PB of course.
>
>The 2400 recognizes the drive and I can copy small documents to the drive.
>We want to move some small apps and things to the drive but anything
>like copying a folder or a larger single file freezes in the copy
>process and just sits there. We have to do a forced reboot to get
>out of it.
One possibility that occurs is the "Turn off power to inactive PC
cards" option in the third pane of the Energy Saver control panel.
This option has mysteriously stopped working on my 2400 with OS 9.1,
actually, but was still effective (and occasionally troublesome with
some buggy PC cards) in 9.0.4. If the PC card that comes with the
drive is only providing power but not moving any data, the OS may cut
that power with this setting on. See if it's on, and if so turn it
off and try again (if it has no effect then remember to turn it back
on, since it can help save battery life and keep the computer notably
cooler when it works).
Otherwise it sounds like a driver issue, or SCSI termination - does
the case have a SCSI interface or does it actually talk through the
PC card? I realise the drive inside is ATA. Try the usual Mac voodoo,
especially shift-booting or rebooting with only the drive interface's
own driver extension (if any).
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