Well, Maxtor sent us a replacement for the 60Gb hard disc that I got when Mike last came up and bought a shitload of games that my machine didn't have room for. It failed a while after - weird beeping noises, not spinning up, data corruption; apparently this is a known problem with Power Macs and second hard discs from maxtor - and we sent it back, with a lot of help from Maxtor's web site. Impressively, they realise that people are mostly coming to their site if they've got a problem with their hard disc, so there's a prominent "Returns" link on the front page. Very nice.
Anyway, the hard disc arrived, I opened up the Power Mac, removed the hard disc bay, put the new disc in, put the bay back, powered on the machine - zilch. It didn't recognise the hard disc, when I booted from CD the machine crashed spectacularly (white noise on the screen); I worked out it was a problem with the drive, and, as I assumed, it was indeed the new Maxtor disc claiming it was primary when it wasn't. I went to the Maxtor web site, found the appropriate jumper settings, corrected them, and all was fine.
The stupidity, though, was that the drive was shipped with jumper settings that didn't make sense. WTF? Surely it could have been shipped with some sensible default setting, like cable select, rather than settings that were guaranteed not to work?
Incidentally, UK2 is getting to me. When I wrote "shitload of games" earlier, my fingers automatically, after "shitload of", typed the word "domains".
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