On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 18:07:09 -0700, Chris Tillman composed: > On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 06:49:50PM -0700, Jessica Blank wrote: > > The poop: > > > > * First hard drive is a 1GB Quantum > > * Second hard drive is a 4GB something-or-other > > * Third hard drive is one of those big old "boat anchor"/"freight train" > > 4GB drives. It fills the whole bottom bay of the Mac (twice as high as a > > typical "modern" hard drive). It's at the end of the SCSI chain, so I > > enabled the terminator on it. That is the only termination on the chain, > > as far as I know. The information on this drive and the (many) jumper > > options availble on it (nice drive!) is at: > > http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/scsi/st15150n.html (yes, it's a > > Seagate Barracuda ST15150N).
my partner has one running in an external case with macos 8.1 running in a quadra 800. i've noticed strange behaviour from the drive and maybe the bus too, but it's 53c96 chip on the q800 IIRC, not a pmac.. > > fortitude:/home/shared/cds/cosmo# cd /var/log > > fortitude:/var/log# ls -l > > (SYSTEM JUST SITS THERE, RHYTMICALLY CLICKING AWAY) > > > > The kernel I use is 2.4.20; I compiled it myself. Other than this bug, it > > works perfectly. i know it's just a minor ext3 bug, but maybe there's some underlying factor in the 2.4.20 ext2 source? just curious.... simon > > Please, could someone help me? Is this a termination issue? Is this a > > known bug? What in heck is wrong with my Mac? > > Whenever I got that clicking noise, I always assumed the drive was > a goner and replaced it. It works fine on another machine? >
