Re: power mac 9500 mp

[Nathan Grube]

I have had similar problems.  There is a non-repeatability in the 
problems on my machine.  I have had the CD drive sometimes show up on 
the SCSI bus and sometimes not.  It was an original Apple drive (made 
by I forget whom) and then I replaced it with another drive from the 
same era and had similar trouble.  For a while I thought the trouble 
was with the SCSI cable and or connector since unplugging and 
replugging it sometimes seemed to solve it, but at other times no 
luck.  THen I found that under MacOS, it will always see the drive if 
I try to boot from the drive at start up even if there is not a 
bootable CD in there (but if no CD is present or I do not hold down 
c, I can only rarely see the drive.)  I succeeded in installing 
Yellow Dog Linux a few times, but since then I have found that the CD 
drive does not show up in Linux no matter what I try, but continues 
to show up in Mac OS if I try to boot from a CD in the drive.  I have 
been unable to reinstall linux (or add anything to it from the CD) 
ever since.  I have been reduced to installing the hard drive in an 
8500, doing the install, and then switching the hard drive back.  If 
anyone has any suggestions, I'd like to hear them!

Nathan Grube

PS>  Oh, maybe this is obvious, but you cannot necessarily use an OS9 
CD that came from a newer machine, like a G4 for example.  Mine won't 
boot that way, but it will consistently boot from an appropriate Mac 
OS CD.




hey has anyone had a power mac 9500 not want to boot off of a cd, i would
like to install linux on this machine, but first want to install os9 on this
machine, and i insert my os9 cd hold down the c button, and yet it just sits
at the happy mac face
Thanks
Jason Whitt
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