Can't install on Maxtor Diamondmax 40gb |
January, 13, 2003 9:48 PM |
tippingj |
Greetings to all. I have recently came from a 13gb drive to a new Maxtor DiamondMax 7200rpm drive, 40gb. I now get the following error as I try to boot Jaguar into the installer (it worked with the previous drive just fine). SAM Multimedia Read or Write Failed Followed by some form of adress or something.. or something like that. This is the only error that I can see before the entire screen jumps quite a bit with other information, then I get the almighty Kernal Panic (We are hanging here...). Around we go in a endless loop. Mac OS 9.1 runs and installed just fine onto the LAST 3.5gb of the drive (OS X is on the first 8gb, the middle part is a 27gb partition for apps and whatnot). This SAM error comes up just after some other error: in6-ifattach-linklocal, something about not being able to configure, lo0... I haven't had the chance to swap the drives back again, as my Previous 13gb drive suffered some strange problems (specificly the same spot of the HD would get corrupted...), which prompted me to go to the new 40gb. Any help here? 10.2 installed flawlessly on the previous drive... |
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RE: Can't install on Maxtor Diamondmax 40gb |
January, 15, 2003 8:17 PM |
pbell3 |
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I have some news on that score. I have done the same thing on my iMac/400. The standard drive is a Maxtor 13GB/ATA66 drive. In my case this drive was perfect, but was very noisy, all of them are. I went to the Diamondmax-8/40GB/ATA133 drive as you have. The drive worked all right, and I have 3 partitions in which I have OSX-10.2.3,OS9.2.2,OS9.1 - - Now, atfter fiddling with good utilities (mainly TechToolPro-3.0.9) the drive has been diagnosed as having 3 large BAD-SPOTS towards the bottom of the drive. It's so bad that TTP makes the case that this drive needs a low-level format to re-map the drive's media. These badspots cannot be mapped-out in a high-level format state. The irony is, recent MacOS versions DO NOT ALLOW FOR A LOW-LEVEL FORMAT, so I'm going to have to offload all data to another drive, move the drive to my G3-Beige, and use MacOS-8.1 Installer Disk Utility to do the low-level format, ARRRGGGGHHH! This gets me to your case. I think many of these Diamondmax drives have poor platters and it is possible your drive has a similar problem except that the badspots are towards the top of the drive. You may need to have a tech-type person test your drive and then if necessary low-level format the thing and hope that cures it. If you still are within the warranty on the drive, get a replacement after diagnosing the drive for certain. |
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