Re: [WinMac] Services for Macintosh

Jack Crowley(j-c[at]iname.com)
Tue, 24 Aug 1999 07:44:21 -0500

Seems like SFM either works swell or doesn't work at all ... just
spent 22 miserable
hours tracking down a similar (but not identical) problem (Quark
couldn't find some
MacFile volumes after an upgrade to Service Pack 4. ... the
non-obvious solution in
my case was a corrupted network card driver ... go figure)
In your case it definitely looks like the NT Server has severe
hiccups. I'd agree that
the problem doesn't appear to be SFM but will caution you to reapply
service pack
4 if you choose to remove and reinstall SFM. Questions:

a) What's different about the "bad" drives from the "good" drives ...
same controller, same make/model/software driver?
b) Any strange messages in the Event Viewer?
c) are these true standalone hard disks or are they logical drives? Are they
part of a RAID array?
d) if SCSI, are they at the chain end? terminated OK?
The simple fact that Server Manager could not recognize the drive as
an NTFS partition
bothers me. I have had that happen when I used a third party
formatter from Partition
Magic ... my solution was the same as yours, reformat.
But, since your formatting has proven fruitless, I'd be looking at
the hardware and
hardware drivers.If you were to tell me that all of the drives were
identical, I'd
ask about the controllers. If the bad drives were on different
controllers I'd look at
their position (master/slave for IDE, slot # for SCSI) in the chain.
Something's got
to be logical here ... ok, maybe not :=).
Best of luck

Jack Crowley

PS ... when you're groggy from Mac/NT problems, does the MacOS smiley face
bother you as much as it does me?

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