7300 and OS 10.2.5 |
May, 15, 2003 2:42 PM |
mesaken777 |
I am running 10.2.5 (installed from OS 9.2.2) with the NewerTech G4 400, Radeon PCI 7000, and the Macally USB/FW pci card. When I went back to 9.2.2 and tried to trash files from the FW drive connected to the MacAlly card, I get consistent freezes. This happens when copying files back from the FW drive, although I was able to successfully copy back some files. For example, I couldn't copy back the main backup folder, but I can open that folder and copy back files in that folder. Before the OS X install I had (successfully?) backed up files from the 7300 to the FW drive using OS 9.2.2. The only other thing I did was to update the Radeon 7000 firmware to the new version. Before all this, in OS 9.2.2, I had successfully burned CD-Rs use the MacAlly card, but had never used a FW harddrive. I have noticed other threads concerning the new firmware for the Radeon 7000, and am wondering if this is one of those problems. So far, this is the only problem that has emerged, but I don't know if it is really connected with the new firmware. The computer runs fine with the FW drive on the desktop as long as I don't use it as I have described. REPLY- . The new Radeon firmware should not affect FireWire but 9.2.2 might. Try 9.1 instead. Maybe try using Disk Warrior. joevt . I did run DiskWarrior and TechTool Pro 3.0.9, neither showed significant problems with the FW drive. In 9.2.2, I was getting the "drive appears to be damaged" dialog and would still get freezes when copying from or trying to delete files from the drive. I then booted to 10.2.5 and was able to successfully Trash the OS 10.2.5 bkup I made (w/o knowing it couldn't be backed up w/o Carbon Copy Cloner), but then as I was copying files from the FW drive I got hung with the spinning rainbow ball and had to restart. I will check the drive on one of my G4's to make sure its not the culprit. a) In the mean time I would like to know if the MacAlly USB 2.0/FW card has been working for others. b) I also wanted to get clear about the proper L2 cache setting. Currently the Maxpower control is set to: 1) Cache: 200.MHz (400/2), This ratio can be changed or disabled. with buttons Write-back(faster) ON, Write-through OFF, its one or the other. 2) Motherboard cache(256k off) The On if larger than backside is ON, and there are dedicated On or Off buttons to the right which are off. 3) Memory timing optimization is set for 70ns, with Off and 60ns(faster) options These are defaults. What settings do I need to setup L2CacheConfig? I still have to boot the computer by hitting the Power On key, the computer starts the bootup process, then pauses with a black screen. Then, by hitting the Restart combo - Cmnd/Ctrl/Power On t |
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RE: 7300 and OS 10.2.5 |
May, 15, 2003 4:13 PM |
mjoecups358 |
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You might want to try a different FW card... Although I know the Macally card does work... I have noticed it seems to have very limited write speed. I bought a generic ($15) FW card which allows my FW frive to write about 4 times faster. Marty |
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