Okay, can someone give me a somewhat believable explanation why I had random freezeups in applications or even to the Tiger OS when my 30gb hd and cd-rom were both attached to ide2? I put both hard drives on ide1 and no more lockups, especially after burning cds or running system preferences.
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Hard drive weirdness on a g4 1gz powermac
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Didn't have one Master and the other Slave?moonislune said:
Isn't IDE2 ATA/33? COuld it have been too slow for the drive? Grasping at stroh's here (pass the rum).
CanadaRAM said:
Yeah, one was master, the other slave; I even tried switching them around. The speed is the same on both ide coonections (Pass the rum back).
I´m also having a strange problem
My PM G4 is also having random freezing behaviour. At first I tought that my hard drive had died (it even made clicking sounds), but no.
What is weird is that I have run both Apple´s harware test and Pro Tools and they both show everything is O.K.
I guess that 4 year old IDE controllers on PMs just have intermitent failures. I´d appreciate if anyone can recommend a diagnose software for this kind of problem.
If one of your IDE buses is working OK, use it.
Greetings
from the subtropical regions of Mexico
Felipe B.
moonislune said:
My PM G4 is also having random freezing behaviour. At first I tought that my hard drive had died (it even made clicking sounds), but no.
What is weird is that I have run both Apple´s harware test and Pro Tools and they both show everything is O.K.
I guess that 4 year old IDE controllers on PMs just have intermitent failures. I´d appreciate if anyone can recommend a diagnose software for this kind of problem.
If one of your IDE buses is working OK, use it.
Greetings
from the subtropical regions of Mexico
Felipe B.