Drive Jumper Settings

Go to the IBM or Hitachi web site and look up the data sheet for your drive.

Palmer33167:

Your Seagate is set correctly as master.

The Slave setting on the IBM requires that two jumpers be placed vertically across the four rightmost pins (as you face the jumper block of the drive).

Here's a diagram:

http://eshop.macsales.com/Tech/manuals/idehdsettings/IBM300.pdf

Gary

ps: Insure that the Seagate (Master) is attached to the end connector of the ribbon cable, with the IBM (Slave) connected to the inline connector.

So what you are saying is that the 2 additional hard drives I have installed in my QS 2002 should be set at cable select? I just recently added a serial card and got a ATA adapter for the 200GB ATA (the serial is for later HD installation{s}).
Ok here is my problem, everytime I shut everthing down (including the external drives) and start up I get a restart message. After restart everything is just fine and if I shut down and don't turn off the external drives it starts up with no problem. None of this occured until installing the internal 200 GB to the serial card. Could this be another case of not setting the 200GB correctly?
The card is an SATA 4 Channel PCI-M for Mac and the adapter is a SeriTek/1SC1 on a 2002 QS with a dual 1.2 GB prossesor and 1.5 GB ram. Any help would be appreciated.

Hi, mactothefuture!

On a QS 2002, the drives are normally set to master and slave, not cable select. If you have a drive or drives on the native IDE drive bus and a controller on a PCI card, you again typically use master and slave settings on each bus, which operate independently of each other.

Your restart message sounds like you're experiencing kernel panics. These may be hardware or software related, but my best guess is that they're most likely hardware related to the SATA hookup, based on what you've said. You might check with the manufacturer to insure that the card/adapter firmware is current and that it's all configured per their instructions.

Gary

Thanks I will do that, I will let you know in a couple of days how it went. Thanks again!

Ok I set the jumpers to slave and now the hard drive did not mount on the desktop. the firmware for the serial card is loaded and is current. Cable select next time? I am open for suggestions. thanks in advance.

A single drive on a bus should never be set to slave. The normal setting is Master (or Single for Western Digital drives). You only use Slave with a master drive present on the same bus.

Gary

After reseting it to master I realized that. However I still have the same problem with the kernel panic on startup. I always have to restart to get it to fully boot. i know it has to have something to do with the serial card which is for the mac, but (and maybe this is the culprit) to use my ATA drive I purchased an adapter to connect to the serial card. that being said, everything worked right, I formatted the drive with 2 94GB partitions and it takes information fine, I just keep getting the kernek panic with every start up. Freaky huh?

Hello I have a similar problem, but my question is what about an external hard drive, I have a damage WD 80 gig in an external case. When I connect it to my Powermac it doesnot mount to the desktop but it will appear in disk doctor and in system profile. What jumper settings do I need, single or Master. Also can anybody recommend a good software to retreive the data from the drive, I was sujested Diskwarrior.
Thanks
Gonzo

That would be your best bet. I have 2 external hard drives both are master settings no problem so far and I have been using them for 2 years. One is USB and the other is firewire.

Hi, Gonzo!

I might be incorrect, but I would try the Western Digital with the Single setting. Unlike others, WD specifies the "Master (dual)" setting when the drive is installed along with another drive on the same bus, which isn't the case here. The Single setting is akin to the single Master setting on other drive brands.

If you're having problems with the drive, you might consider foregoing the external case setup for now and instead install it in the Mac and see if you can mount it/repair it there first.

Have you or can you run Repair Disk on the drive with Disk Utility (DU)? If so, what happens/what error message do you get? Have you tried to mount the drive using the DU "Mount" option? Have you tried resetting PRAM? Can you mount the drive booted from OS 9 or the OS 9 install disk, using Disk First Aid and /or Drive Setup (don't initialize!)?

DiskWarrior is arguably the best drive directory repair utility to be had, and might be able to rebuild the directory and restore the drive, if the above doesn't help. If DW won't, however, Data Rescue II may be able to recover the data if the drive can't be repaired. You might download the free trial version and see if it "sees" the files on that drive. If it does, it most probably can salvage them.

Gary





1GH DP G4 Quicksilver 2002, 400MH B&W rev.2 G3, Mac SE30 Mac OS X (10.4.2) 5G iPod, Epson 2200 & R300 & LW Select 360 Printers, Epson 3200 Scanner

Thanks a lot for your reply. I downloaded the demo version. It says that If the software can see the drive it might be able to see the files. Well It can see the drive but can not see any files. I did the quick scan and nothing as recommended, then i did the thorough scan and it has been more than 3 hours and nothing, it says "error reading file 3582"
Any more advice?
Thanks in advance
Gonzo

Gonzo:

I'd let the thorough scan run its course, which may take a long time. (I recall a DisKWarrior directory rebuild a few months back that ran for days before completing the job. The Member was repearedly tempted to quit the process, thinking it was hung and futilely doing nothing...). The trial version, BTW, is functionally the same as the full version, but with the saving feature crippled.

If, in the end, it doesn't see the files or sees only "garbage" (folders loaded with orphaned files, no user folder files, etc.), you can make your assessment from there.

The only other alternative I would recommend is DiskWarrior, which might work, but you'd have to purchase it up front. If DW doesn't fix things, at least you'll have a copy of this outstanding utility in your software library...

If neither of the above work out, I think your last resort would perhaps be a disk recovery service, which costs a small fortune.

Gary

1GH DP G4 Quicksilver 2002, 400MH B&W rev.2 G3, Mac SE30 Mac OS X (10.4.2) 5G iPod, Epson 2200 & R300 & LW Select 360 Printers, Epson 3200 Scanner