If you're having problems with the drive mounting on start, it's probably because of your jumper settings. Make sure your drive has the correct ID set up, and that it's jumpers are set to start on hard boot. Check your drive's manufacturer's website and manuals for jumper settings. Use SCSI probe to see what your drive Id's are set to and to see which ID is open for the hard drive you are going to install.
Dan responded:
Good point, wrt SCSI-based drives. An ID collision can be a PITA. And since most come preset to ID 0,,, they happily collide with your boot drive!
SCSI Probe good. :)
- Dan.
This is an ATA Maxtor 60 GB drive with PCI controller. Guess I should have pointed that out from the beginning. I have thought that either an ID problem or Controller card issue was the culprit to my drive not being seen and causing my 8500 to hang after boot from my SCSI drive.
When I fist got the drive I looked through the jumper setting options in the manual (which were different from their website, nice! Have since found the website is correct). I chose the cable select method over setting it as a secondary master. Initialized and partitioned the drive and ID was Bus 2, ID 0 as one would expect. In a posting on this list Peter said not to use cable select on a mac. I went to switch it to master and my older SCSI drive disappeared not to be located. So I switched it back to cable select and life was good for 3 months using 9.1 on the new drive and starting up off the older SCSI with 8.6 once in a while.
After a hard freeze in 9.1 on the ATA Maxtor which had something to do with Eudora/IE/Remote Access/GV modem (because the same thing had happened a few times prior) I switched the startup disk back to the SCSI w/8.6 and the Maxtor was gone. I played with the jumper every which way to Sunday after that with multiple reboots and starting from CD, and at one point saw the drive under bus 2, ID 1, An attempt to mount it locked up the system. Never saw the Maxtor again. Had to disconnect the power from the Maxtor in order to boot the computer from my SCSI drive w/o hanging at the point just before the desktop icons appear. Probably because the Finder is trying to mount the Maxtor to display the HD icon on the desktop.
Anyway I have given up today and contacted Maxtor again, this time they offered to replace the drive and I will start all over again. So hopefully it really was just the drive gone bad. If that is the case, how can I ever have any faith in the new one?
Mike
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