Given that the Seagates are 9GB, I'm assuming they are on a SCSI card - - i.e. SCSI drives? In managing over 350 Macs over the years, I once had a problem that sounds much like yours - - the Mac would freeze from time to time and the drive would disappear. Solution there was to replace the SCSI cable. You might try just reseating the SCSI connectors to the drives first. Of course, as MarvinBass suggests, first trouble-shooting idea would be to remove the SCSI card from the equation - - you could leaves the drives in place. Let your Mac run for a day or two without the SCSI bits and see if you get a freeze. If the trouble turns out to be the SCSI chain, I'd think hard about just installing a new ATA drive instead - - Western Digital Caviar 8MB Cache 120G for $150 vs. $50 for a new SCSI cable. :-)
Thanks for the input guys. Umm.. I just went out and bought Norton Utilities (which surprisingly, I didn't even have on my Mac). Gonna try and degrag (and possibly reformat the drives) first, and if that fails... I"ll try your options. Thanks again!
Hi everyone, Got a problem. I have a G4 400 MHz, single processor. Over the past few weeks, whether I'm using Pro Tools or not, if I leave the Mac sitting untouched for a good half hour, when I come back to it, it freezes up on me. Meaning.. I'll try to do whatever on it.. be it, open another application, or even shut the Mac down, and it will freeze. I end up having to reboot, and then it's fine. Another weird thing. I have 2 internal 9 gig seagate drives in there (in addition to the main Mac hard drive). If I leave the Mac sitting for a while, sometimes my Seagate 2 drive totally disappears. It disappears from my desktop, and when I try and access it through Pro Tools, the system doesn't recognize that the drive even exists. If I shutdown, and wait a while... and then reboot, my Seagate 2 drive shows up again. Any ideas? Could this be heat related? I have my Mac in an Isomac, and I noticed that for some reason, the temperature gauge on the Isomac gets up to around 99 degrees sometimes (even though my studio room temp is only at 75 degrees). But it could be a bad gauge... because I felt the side of the Mac, and it didn't seem particularly hot. I'm really not a Mac oritented guy. Can anyone suggest anything I can do to suss out the problem on my computer? Thanks !!!!!!!
As Apple would have you do, is to take out and third party hardware, peripherals, and ram. Then test the G4 to see if it continues. If the Mac works again as normal, then that means one of the devices is affecting the system. I would think it could be heat related if you just add the Seagates to the equation. My suggestion is to put them in table cases with fans.
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