I hate SCSI! - SCSI problems here...

HyperLiteG4

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so you can probably tell I am fed up with this right now....I'm trying to salvage what's left on this dying system I have here so I can move it all to my new G5.

I have this OLD 9500 on OS 8.6 with 2 Adaptec 2940UW and 2 ProMax SCSI Raid Chassis. Each chassis has 8 drives in them. these drives range in size and whoever setup this system in the first place didn't know what they were doing, so it became my problem.

I had the system up and running fine but then it froze, so i had to reboot. since then i haven't been able to mount the drives.

I've tried Norton SystemWorks and DiskWarrior, but since the drives won't mount I'm having no luck at all. Any ideas?!?!?!
 
What you need is Norton Utilities version 4.x for 8.6. I never had any luck with SystemWorks. If you have trouble finding that version, let me know.

When did the freeze occur - opening a program or at boot?
 
Cheryl said:
What you need is Norton Utilities version 4.x for 8.6. I never had any luck with SystemWorks. If you have trouble finding that version, let me know.

When did the freeze occur - opening a program or at boot?
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the freeze occured when playing video on the system. but yeah, I can't find any old utilities to use with this machine. If you have NU 4.x for 8.6 and could get it to me somehow that would be great! I was trying to also look for Hard Drive Toolkit, I've heard that's another great one.....
 
The correct Norton Utilities is on the way.

I do have some suggestions once you get the machine booted.
In the Memory Panel, make sure Disk cache is set to 6144k, Virtual Memory is turned on, Ram disk is off.

If the video freezes again, you may need to allocate more memory to the program you are using to view it.
 
Here's some emergency ideas:

1. Have you tried starting up with your system disk and running disk first aid that way? Sometimes when you can boot up from a CD you have a better chance at getting at the hard drives.

2. Restart while holding the shift key and once the start up screen says "Extensions Disabled" then hold the command + option keys until you get the "Are you sure you want to rebuild your Desktop" message. Say ok. Then run Disk First Aid.

3. A last resort is the old "zap the P-RAM" option which might clear up your internal system drive's problem. Restart and hold down the option + command + P + R and wait for the boot up tone to chime three times. Especially with your old computer, I would venture to guess that your Directory Blocks are all jumbled up; and having all those different drives installed makes it even easier for the computer to lose track of them.

Hopefully you have a software issue instead of a hardware issue. The software issue seems easier to fix.

Let us know how it goes! :)
 
Yeah I tried all of that, the problem here is that these drives are only seen when this one specific extension is loaded. I even tried making a bootable CD with the extension on it and the drives still won't show up. The most I can get on one of the tools is to see the partitioning on the individual drives, but since they are in a RAID it won't put them back together. I also tried to zap the p-ram, rebuilding the desktop, nothing seems to work.

Disk First Aid won't see anything that isn't mounted either. So I'm waiting for a friend to get me an older copy of Norton, they said that the older version works better.....

thanks for all your help though.
 
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