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Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / March 2005Is Panther unkind to external USB drives?
I wonder if there's an issue with Panther and USB 2.0 external hard drives. I'm running a Targa Databox 250Gb attached to a Wallstreet and am experiencing a lot of Happy Spinning Beachballs of Death, as well as other nastiness. All is well when I boot from OS 9. I've run every sort of diagnostic tool (even Norton, God help us!) but nothing works. Any ideas? Thanks Pieter > I wonder if there's an issue with Panther and USB 2.0 external hard > drives. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > All is well when I boot from OS 9. I've run every sort of diagnostic > tool (even Norton, God help us!) but nothing works. Any ideas? The beachball means that some application has not pulled events off of its queue for "too long." I'm really not sure what too long is. It shouldn't be an indication of Panther being unkind to external hard drives of any sort. However: 1) Panther on a Wall Street is not a supported configuration. 2) Wall Street models don't have USB, so I wonder about the adapter and driver you're using to connect the drive.  SignatureThere's nothing quite like the joy of first hearing an Alvin & the Chipmunks cover of Pink Floyd's "The Final Cut." "Not Now John" is especially sublime. > > I wonder if there's an issue with Panther and USB 2.0 external hard > > drives. [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > There's nothing quite like the joy of first hearing an Alvin & the Chipmunks > cover of Pink Floyd's "The Final Cut." "Not Now John" is especially sublime. Good grief! You can tell that this board is a beta. First they ask me for a nickname they'll use instead of my email addy - then helpfully publish the addy for the entire universe to see, and spam :( Next I sign up with Hotmail, post a reply to you, Gregory, with a thank you. I hit "send" and it disappears! Anyway, to answer your questions. The magic of XPostFacto enables Panther to purr merrily on my WS, no issues except the external drive one. The adapter is a USB 2.0 CardBus card, which lets me run all my other peripherals without difficulty. The driver is the Cypress USB Storage 1.4J. I know it's really for OS 10.2 but I searched in vain for a more Panther-compatible one. (Any leads welcome.) Thanks again for your help. Pieter > Good grief! You can tell that this board is a beta. First they ask me > for a nickname they'll use instead of my email addy - then helpfully > publish the addy for the entire universe to see, and spam :( Well then, use a proper newsreader program like everyone else, instead of Google Groups. :-) Pete > Well then, use a proper newsreader program like everyone else, instead > of Google Groups. That's sort of academic now, isn't it? I don't use that addy any more. Now, have you any ideas on that driver, Pete? Pieter >> Well then, use a proper newsreader program like everyone else, instead >>of Google Groups. > That's sort of academic now, isn't it? I don't use that addy any more. > > Now, have you any ideas on that driver, Pete? No, I'm afraid not. And I'm sorry if I offended you - I didn't mean to though I see how it could be taken that way. It's just the way you said "board" which suggested to me that you might be one of the majority of Internet users who are unaware of Usenet and thought it was all Google Groups. I didn't want them getting the credit when they are, as you say, pretty sh.t. Clearly I was mistaken. Cheers, Pete > No, I'm afraid not. And I'm sorry if I offended you - I didn't mean to > though I see how it could be taken that way. Hehe, no sweat, Pete. I'm not offended at all. It's simply that it's so long since I visited the newsgroups that I'd forgotten there are such things as newsreader programs. > It's just the way you said > "board" which suggested to me that you might be one of the majority of > Internet users who are unaware of Usenet and thought it was all Google > Groups. I didn't want them getting the credit when they are, as you say, > pretty sh.t. LOL, I didn't actually use those words, but since you mention it, yes they are! But to return to HDs. It'd got to be a minor glitch. After all, my other periphs are working just fine. The HD works too but there are issues, such as the SBBOD, which doesn't appear all the time but often enough to be very irritating. One can't get rid of it without a restart. I'm convinced now more than ever that the driver is at fault. But where on earth do I find a suitable one? I wish I knew.... Best Pieter > Good grief! You can tell that this board is a beta. First they ask me > for a nickname they'll use instead of my email addy - then helpfully [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > 10.2 but I searched in vain for a more Panther-compatible one. (Any > leads welcome.) Out of curiosity, have you tried it without any 3rd-party driver? I'm not promising it will work; just wondering if you've given it a shot. G SignatureThere's nothing quite like the joy of first hearing an Alvin & the Chipmunks cover of Pink Floyd's "The Final Cut." "Not Now John" is especially sublime. Yup, it's me again, reverting to my old email addy. Just delete the triple x if you want to reply privately. > Out of curiosity, have you tried it without any 3rd-party driver? I'm > not promising it will work; just wondering if you've given it a shot. > > G Thanks for that, Gregory. I reckon I've tried just about every 3rd-party driver I could find when trawling the net! None works I'm afraid. It's clearly a Panther/USB issue. The same thing happens when I use my USB flash drive, and again no probs in OS 9.0. Somebody somewhere suggesting swapping out some .kext files with Jaguar. Well, I tried this but it messed up my installation. Clean install and back to square one :( A shame, really, coz the Wallstreet is as good as it was when it came out of the box and it has the best little keyboard ever made! Best Pieter It has come to our attention that on 29/3/05 4:03 am, in article uce-030E86.22031328032005@comcast.dca.giganews.com, "Gregory Weston" <uce@splook.com> wrote: > In article <1111241287.655071.284220@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, >> Good grief! You can tell that this board is a beta. First they ask me >> for a nickname they'll use instead of my email addy - then helpfully [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >> 10.2 but I searched in vain for a more Panther-compatible one. (Any >> leads welcome.) |
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