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| Quadra 700 & SCSI2SD freezes |
Posted by: james_w on 2015-05-21 09:29:16
I'm having a strange behaviour (just started recently) with freezes on my Quadra 700.
The first time it just happened whilst I was using it, and the segment of the hard disk that identifies itself got corrupt. Disk First Aid fixed it fine.
Then startups were being weird. So I ran Norton Disk Doctor on it, which found a bunch of errors, but it fixed them all and now startups are fine.
What happens now is that it freezes when I try to restart or shutdown the Quadra.
Starting up, then shutting down from a different disk whether internal or external is fine. They're both running 7.5.5.
The shutdown freezes happen whether the SCSI2SD is internally mounted or in an external SCSI enclosure.
Any ideas folks?
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Posted by: james_w on 2015-05-21 09:30:09
Forgot to mention, I also updated to the latest SCSI2SD firmware (I was on 3.6) and it's the same.
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Posted by: Elfen on 2015-05-21 09:55:03
Are you using Sherlock to speed up file searches? The older version of Sherlock corrupts the file structure, best to find the extension and remove it.
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Posted by: TheWhiteFalcon on 2015-05-21 10:26:07
Sherlock isn't in 7.5.5...it's not even 68k compatible.
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Posted by: james_w on 2015-05-21 10:28:01
I should mention also that I've swapped out the PSU and logicboard and it behaves the same (at first I thought it was maybe faulty SCSI controller).
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Posted by: james_w on 2015-05-21 10:28:47
The next thing I'm going to try is a fresh system install on a different SD card
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Posted by: uniserver on 2015-05-21 10:29:47
i would say hit it with lido7 , nuke drive make new partitions, don't exceed 1.7 gb each. re-install 7.5, and you should be fine.
here
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Posted by: olePigeon on 2015-05-21 10:35:40
Yeah, make sure your partitions are under 2GBs. That can cause all sorts of weird problems.
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Posted by: james_w on 2015-05-21 12:28:46
Thanks very much - I used Lido to format it in the first place, but my partitions are 2gb, I'll backup, initialise and then make smaller partitions and try again.
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Posted by: uniserver on 2015-05-21 14:08:29
yeah i always had good luck with 1.7 gig partitions. seemed to get issues when i went over that.
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Posted by: james_w on 2015-05-21 18:03:47
Frustratingly that doesn't seem to have solved it (now have 2x ~500MB partitions and 2x ~1.4GB partitions).
Not sure what to try next... maybe a reinstall of the system software?
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Posted by: uniserver on 2015-05-21 18:56:37
nope i have no idea it sounds strange. maybe talk to mike and see what he thinks. doesn't he offer support for his products these days?
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Posted by: CelGen on 2015-05-21 22:44:29
Have you tried a different SD card? You could quite simply be running up against a bad card or a cheap card that isn't rated for the task and blocks keep going bad.
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Posted by: james_w on 2015-05-22 06:12:06
Yeah good plan - I'll try a different card before bothering Mike 🙂 thanks again folks
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Posted by: james_w on 2015-05-22 18:42:09
I tried a different SD card, 2gb and also not SDHC.
Split into two partitions and still the same issue. It seems it does it on 7.5.3 or above for some reason.
I've installed 7.1.1 instead and it seems happy.
Going to try another fresh install of 7.5.5, but just do things bit by bit so I can try to identify what might be causing the problems.
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Posted by: uniserver on 2015-05-22 19:57:58
this is interesting and something you want to keep an eye on. there might be a bug in his firmware.
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Posted by: james_w on 2015-05-23 06:04:11
I've now also done a fresh install of 7.6
Still is 100% happy on 7.1, but freezes when trying to shutdown or restart from 7.6.
It's not too serious for me as I can just hit the reset button on the front and most of the time I run 7.1 anyway, but be nice for it to work in 7.5+
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Posted by: james_w on 2015-05-23 06:05:06
If I get time I'll try a vanilla 7.5 install but can't find my installer right now
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Posted by: TheWhiteFalcon on 2015-05-23 06:05:25
I've had weird SCSI stuff on my Q700 under 7.5.5 as well, mainly with the external bus.
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