HD help

[Christopher]

Can someone help me with a hard drive problem I have? No one seems to read the Peripherals forum so I am trying here since you see this thread more.

I have 2 HD's in need of help, one is a 68pin SCSI (40GB), and the other is that really cheap Seagate 120GB 3.5" IDE HD everyone seems to buy. Mine is not mounting in my G4 dual 450. Other HD's mount with the same configs. I also tried in my iMac G3 350MHz, and Fantom Drive's firewire case(link to what it looks like in the peripherals forum). I have changed jumper settings, and cables. The SCSI drive orginally was in my 8500 but I took it out to backup some files. I installed OSX and being stupid put all my parents files on there and erased the IDE drive that had them all with a corrupted OS X install. I know I have to have a SCSI ID for it but I have no idea what it should it. BTW The SCSI is in my G4 and same with 120GB drive. Both are Seagates.

Also the SCSI is using a 68pin SCSI PCI card, I have an adapter to change it to the more standard SCSI plug, but I dictched it thinking it would cause mounting problems. HELP ASAP. Both drives have info in need of saving(mom has important files for our 2 foster care kids, and I have my whole iTunes library, running off of my 3rd gen iPod at the mo)

HELP PLEASE!!!!!!

 

[bluekatt]

if the drive is so important why not put it back in the 8600 ?

 

[Christopher]

because the adapter to use it with the 8500 is messes up.

 

[Aoresteen]

HeavyMeatlforGod,

Don't panic! All is not lost. Let's take them one by one. I won't ask where are your back-ups.

At this point do not install any more software onto either drive! Your priority is to salvage the files off of the 40 Gig SCSI. BTDT!

First the SCSI 40 gig. From your post it seems that the drive came out of the 8500. This means it is a 50 pin SCSI drive, right? What exact model Seagate is it?

What OS was running on the 8500? I'm hoping it was OS 9.

Do you have a boot drive in the 8500 other than the troubled 40 gig? If so, put the trouble disk back in the 8500. Set it to SCSI ID 2. Your boot drive should be SCSI ID 0.

You should see two drives on your desktop. Copy the files off of the trobled 40 gig drive onto the boot drive. If you have a CD-R burn them to a CD.

Now if the troubled drive is the only drive from the 8500 then I would find a 2 or 4 gig SCSI and do a clean install of the OS onto the 4 gig drive and then install the 40 Gig drive into the 8500 as a 2nd drive and back up the drive.

Let us know more about what is in the 8500.

Right now there is no quick and easy solution. You are going to have to take it slow and do some work but I'm sure your data files are still on the 40 gig SCSI drive.

 

[Christopher]

The 8500 has a 2GB 50 pin SCSI, this 40GB is a 68pin but had an adapter that had a pin bend on it, is one pin going to matter? and the 8500 has OS 9 on it, but this drive has tiger and the full file backup from an IDE drive that was in my G4 that needed an erase and install.

 

[gobabushka]

it depends on the pin, if its a data or power pin then yea, one pin's gonna matter

 

[Christopher]

Its on the end, if that helps....... doubt it. But I can try and see if it works. Or better yet, transfer SCSI PCI cards...DUH!

 

[Aoresteen]

The 8500 has a 2GB 50 pin SCSI, l.

Does the 8500 boot OS9 from the 2GB drive?

 

[Christopher]

Sure does.

 

[Christopher]

Well I got the SCSI to mount/boot, but it quit doing that after i shut it down and was going to try my IDE since i felt confident. Guess I shouldn't feel confident anymore.......

The SCSI drive makes a reading click sound, NOT A dying click sound, so I would like to see why its not showing up.

 

[Christopher]

Ok, I had the jumpers set to ID 1 and that seemed to get it to mount, however the jumper's i have are loose fitting, would I be able to bend the pins to touch together to fake the jumper so I can get my data off of it? I got a quote from DriveSavers, between $500-$2400.... A little too much cash.

 

[Christopher]

Ok, well the SCSI drive is not important anymore since my mom has the text file i needed to get off of it, in paper, she tells me this after a week of trying to get this to work.

Anyways......

On the to IDE/ATA Seagate drive, the case I am using looks exactly like this http://www.fantomdrives.com/general/prodlist.asp?CatID=42&Cat=Product

Except that it has the IDE/ATA interface and it has Firewire ports instead of SCSI. Can someone help me with this?