Re: OWC Neptune Firewire 400 160gb, not working right on beige G3 300mhz


michaelalcandor@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
it is showing the whole capacity of the drive (i.e. about 147 gb if I
recall).


Then I'll bet it's a screwed up directory, or similar. If you run
Apple's Disk Utility on it does it say something like "reports
incorrect number of blocks" or something like that? (Haven't run 0S9
in a while). That kind of thing is the result of a crash or
interuption of a drive activity so the drive is confused or insisting
that things aren't where they actually are and tries to copy something
over to a block it thinks is empty but isn't (unless, of course, you
hear platters clacking, which is, well....... : ( )

If it is a problem like that sometimes Apple's utility or a third party
one won't get it on the first time, so sometimes using one then the
other and back and forth can oddly enough fix it after a few rounds.

Apple's utility alone was never been enough to get me out of most
software based drive screw-ups, but it was usually the first thing I'd
reach for. You'll need a third party's OS9 utility if it's deeper
than the common directory stuff.

.

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