>From: Neil Heyde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>The 2300 seems to need the power manager reset quite frequently,
>otherwise instead of starting up properly the hard drive goes into a
>repeated sort of clicking (before the happy mac appears). Sometimes
>it appears to start up OK but just gives up part way through the
>startup sequence, and then on next startup the clicking happens.
I had a similar problem with the PB 2400 I'm looking at. The drive
tried to spin up and then shut down with a scary clunk. I was able
to reboot from a CD, and the drive appeared to work fine, so i
suspected a hosed driver. Indeed, reformatting and reinstalling the
system led to a working drive. And when I looked up the version of
Drive Setup that came with 8.0 (8.1 was installed, but I assume using
an updater) it was in fact the dreaded 1.3, which had already crashed
another of my machines.
Driver problems are usually *not* intermittent, but they can be. In
some cases, it depends what else is on the bus--a drive can boot fine
till you put something else on the bus, and then it crashes.
~ Kiran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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