Hello all, I need to call on your collective wisdom. I am a long time Mac user, but a newbie at "looking under the hood". My question is about my Power Macintosh G3 Beige. A couple of months ago, I pulled it out of storage with the goal of upgrading it to have a second computer around the house for routine use. Thanks to the many great resource on the web, including this group, I have learned about all its strengths and peculiarities. It is a ROM revision A machine, so I'm aware of the "8 GB" limitation and know about the 128 GB limit on hard drive accessing. I maxed out the RAM, replaced the battery, added a Sonnet, Tango 2.0 PCI adapter card, a 4 MB SGRam module, and had it running at Mac OS X 10.2.8, but it seemed flaky, so I went back to OS 9.2.2. But that is not my question right now.
The problem now is about the hard drive. I replaced the 4 GB drive with a Seagate 160 GB Barracuda (7200 rpm). The computer could only see 128 GB, but that was ok. I partitioned that drive into 7.2 GB in the top volume, about 118 GB in a middle volume and about 3 in the bottom volume – with the idea that I would stay away from that end of the drive. I did a fresh install from the installation CDs and upgraded to 9.2.2. Everything worked well for about a week, so I started loading applications and using it. Yesterday, I discovered that the computer only recognizes the middle volume as 117.9 MB. Looks like a "power of 1000" error? So what has happened to the remainder of the middle volume? I've used Disk First Aid and Drive Set-up to look for obvious issues. It is in the middle of scanning the disk for bad blocks using Drive Set-up, so nothing to report there (Should that take > 12 hours?) Other diagnostics to try? I hope that I can get this machine to operate stably because I'm enjoying toying around with it. How can I fix this issue without re-partitioning? I am going to be away for a couple of days, so I apologize in advance if I cannot answer any questions quickly. Thanks. Ed --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
