Factor41
Wishful Drinking
Can anyone please help me, i'm going out of my mind?!
I've just got a SerialATA card (SIIG two-channel card from OWC) and a 200GB Seagate Barracuda SATA drive. I've installed both into my Quicksilver G4/867 with OS X 10.3.8 and the drive has shown up and formatted fine.
Now when I copy files over it all seems fine, but when I copy a big chunk, after a while it just stops. No error, no noise, just stops. Little bar freezes in its window and I can't stop the transfer or do anything. If I try to start another copy, the Finder goes to beach ball and can't be relaunched.
There are three drives in my G4, a 40Gb with the OS on, and 80Gb that I'm copying off and the new 200Gb i'm copying to. 40 and 80 are on the on-board ATA, the 200 on the SATA card. All are 7200rpm Seagate Barracudas.
I've tried the drive on both ports on the SATA card, exactly the same result with each.
If I can't copy files to the drive then it's effectively useless to me. Can anyone see any reason why this would be happening? Would it be a power issue? My tower had a free power cable and the drives all show up on the desktop fine, so I'm guessing it's not that. I have no drivers and nothing to configure with the card. Am i missing something obvious?! Would really appreciate any help.
I've just got a SerialATA card (SIIG two-channel card from OWC) and a 200GB Seagate Barracuda SATA drive. I've installed both into my Quicksilver G4/867 with OS X 10.3.8 and the drive has shown up and formatted fine.
Now when I copy files over it all seems fine, but when I copy a big chunk, after a while it just stops. No error, no noise, just stops. Little bar freezes in its window and I can't stop the transfer or do anything. If I try to start another copy, the Finder goes to beach ball and can't be relaunched.
There are three drives in my G4, a 40Gb with the OS on, and 80Gb that I'm copying off and the new 200Gb i'm copying to. 40 and 80 are on the on-board ATA, the 200 on the SATA card. All are 7200rpm Seagate Barracudas.
I've tried the drive on both ports on the SATA card, exactly the same result with each.
If I can't copy files to the drive then it's effectively useless to me. Can anyone see any reason why this would be happening? Would it be a power issue? My tower had a free power cable and the drives all show up on the desktop fine, so I'm guessing it's not that. I have no drivers and nothing to configure with the card. Am i missing something obvious?! Would really appreciate any help.