<Date: Sun, 09 May 2004 21:03:43 -0500> <Subject: [SM] Here we go again, ata hd freeze> <From: Jim&Marsha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<I know you guys talked about ata drives and freezes on long file transfers.> <I've scoured the archieve and can't find it. Any help would be much> <appreciated.> <Jim > Hello, I am amazed. I think I might have some insight in this, because today I spent all day today fixing my ATA Sonnet Tempo 100 problem. First of all I have an s900 with a ton of ram, a 4.2gig SCSI drive, a 9 gig scsi drive and a sonnet tempo 100 card with a TDK VeloCD CDrom burner on one buss and WD 7200rpm 120 gig ATA 100 drive on the other ATA buss. I also have a 400Mhz G3 on an XLR8 card. My system is fairly retro. I use OS 8.6 and have tried to avoid upgrading and spending money. That describes my system. Each HD is set up for different things so in essense I have 3 different computers. The small scsi is for serious writing, the other scsi is for games and screwing around and the WD 120 is partitioned in two parts, a big part and a small part, realitively speaking. I use the small part to record my vinyl record collection using Spin Doctor and Toast 4.12 which is contemporary to OS 8.6. This setup worked fine for a long time. But I started having problems. I would let the system idle for a while and while sleeping it would run Norton Disk Doctor whatever comes in System Works 1.0. It would report a problem with the small (20gig) volume on shut down and ask to run Disk Doctor to fix the problem. This never ever worked to run Disk Doctor to fix this so called problem on shut down. The s900 would sieze up and would not shut off and there would be no response from any keyboard combination. I would have to reset and turn the power off from the front of the computer. Running Disk Doctor from either the 4.2 scsi or from the CD rom would get nowhere. The computer would seize up and I would have to restart. The small ATA volume wouldn't work to record music. It would mangle any file I recorded. I couldn't use Disk Doctor or Speed Disk, but if I were to use Apple's First Aid I could clear the problem and use the volume again and get Speed Disk to optimize it so I could burn CDs. Gradually this stopped working. It got so bad nothing would work. The worst came when I tried to record BTO's 4 Wheel Drive. I have recorded that album five or six times now. There would always be a problem. First, somewhere in the file while processing the signal it would totally wipe out the sound. If I got it to a point where the whole album was processed and ready to send to Toast to record the computer would lock up. Finally, what tore was I would send this album from Spin Doctor to Toast and I would get a lethal "Buss Error" I don't remember the number but the computer completely siezed up. No controls would be accepted. The little "restart" button wouldn't work and I would have to reset from the from of the computer and reboot from the front of the computer. I had enough of this. Disk Doctor would choke on this. Speed Disk would run after I had used Apple's Disk First Aid, and that would usually not show anything wrong. I tried copying Toast to the other volumes and to burn the album from the scsi drives and they would get a lethal "Buss Error". I discovered the problem. I decided to begin and again and reformat the whole 120gig WD drive into one volume and use it as one drive. I went to install OS 8.6 and I got dialog reporting serious problems with this newly reformatted drive. The installer wanted to know if it should "Quit or Ignore" the problem. I knew Norton Disk Doctor wouldn't do anything so I ran First Aid. It choked. It wouldn't do anything. It reported problems at some level I didn't even know existed below the Main Directory. The only way out was to reformat the drive and zero it. That took all day, just about. I believe I have solved the problem for now. I haven't tried burning the accursed "Four Wheel Drive" but I have used Norton Disk Doctor and Speed Disk all over this new volume without problem. What a pain. I used to have two 40 gig WD ATA 100 drives set up in an array, and I used to have problems. But the Sonnet guy told me that I order to have and Array both drives had to be Master Drives which didn't allow for the VeloCD to be a master drive too, that's why I had problems with that setup. In conclusion, the problem may be fixed. I have a hunch that there might be something wrong with Sonnet ATA cards, but that is just a hunch, or a paranoid delusion, or non delusion. Sincerely, Mark Murphy -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 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