On Aug 29, 2004, at 7:00 PM, Seth Austen wrote:
My 2+ year old 20 G travelstar hard drive died last week, and I got a 40 G
Seagate to replace it. For the most part the installation went smoothly,
however I've since been having issues where the computer won't wake up from
sleep, so I have to force a restart. We've run norton, disk warrior, rebuilt
desktop, etc, to no avail.
For the record, we created 3 partitions on the new hard drive, copied system
9.1 and my files from a backup into 1 partition, then updated that partition
to 9.2 and installed 10.3 from CDs into another partition. I'm currently
working from the sys 9 partition, want to get that running smoothly before I
deal with OSX.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Sounds like the hardware is faulty. If you can, try to run your Hardware diagnostic CD if you still have it, or get something like Tech Tool Pro. Another possibility is double-check the connection the HD has with your Pismo. When I installed a 40G Hitachi drive, I seriously messed things up by not getting the connection right. It worked just fine for about a week, started crashing like crazy, and then disappeared. You might see something similar, so double-check those connections. Worst case scenario is that you call Seagate up and get a replacement drive, but best case scenario is that is just a loose cable.
PS, thanks to Adam for the recommendation of the Sony CRX820E, I've just
ordered one of these to replace my LG CD/DVD drive that also decided to go
south in the last few weeks.
Apple uses the CRX820E in the 2002 model iBooks, so it is a nice safe bet to go with. No real need to thank me, as I pulled my information from xlr8yourmac.com and their reader reports.
Regards, Adam Thayer
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