I finally had to upgrade to some larger drives in my trusty G4 so I decided that the best (read, least spendy) thing I could do is to drop in a PCI card adapter. The two SATA port Sonnet seemed like the best bet and it does work quite well. That is unless I want to shut the machine down. It just won't do it. The Finder quits and I get the bar segment circle and it just keeps on going round and round. I end up having to do a hard shut down. This happens 19 out of 20 times I go to shut 'er down. I should also add that putting the machine to sleep sometimes takes a long time. The monitor will go to sleep but the fan keeps on revving at normal speed. Last night it took 20 minutes before the machine finally went quiet. Other nights this week it went to sleep right away. I don't think it has anything to do with the fans spinning up to cool down the innards because if anything it's been cooler in my house this week than it has been for a long time. Also the machine will go quickly into quiet sleep even after I've been running it for hours doing 'Shop work.
I have Leopard installed on it and the machine would shut down just fine before adding in the SATA card. Now, not so much. I'm pretty much forced to keep Leopard as the OS due to one of my absolutely necessary applications only operating under Leopard and beyond that I really don't want to go backwards because I really like Leopard in general.
Any ideas as to what's going on here? I'll probably be bringing home a G5 soon anyway so it might be a moot point in a week or so but problems like this just bug me enough to want to find a solution if possible.
thanks
shawn
I have Leopard installed on it and the machine would shut down just fine before adding in the SATA card. Now, not so much. I'm pretty much forced to keep Leopard as the OS due to one of my absolutely necessary applications only operating under Leopard and beyond that I really don't want to go backwards because I really like Leopard in general.
Any ideas as to what's going on here? I'll probably be bringing home a G5 soon anyway so it might be a moot point in a week or so but problems like this just bug me enough to want to find a solution if possible.
thanks
shawn