Hi guys n gals;
I'm getting ready to try to install (probably yellow dog) linux
on a beige g3 300 mhz. At the moment I have 4 drives on it.
Am running system 9.1
I picked up the machine about a month ago. Brought it home, and
put in a second hard drive. Started it up and had all kinds of
problems.
It seems that if I set the machine up with either of the internal
drives as the start up drive, the machine will hang half way
through the start up sequence leaving me with a desktop showing
a frozen clock and nothing else.
In the process of trying to recover control of it I cannot get
it to allow the start up on the ata bus drives. I finally
shut down and disconnect the internal drives to allow the external
to take control...only to find that the internal now doesn't
show up (as expected). I hook them up and they finally shows
up somehow .... although I'm not sure quite what I did to get
it back.
In addition, I seem to occasionally have a problem getting the
drives on the internal ATA bus to regularly show up. Sometimes
one shows up and another does not. It seems mostly to confine
itself to the two internal drives and especially if I set one
of them as the start up drive.
What I'm planning to do going to Yellow Dog may bring these problems
up again because I may need to move drives around. I thought I'd
see if anyone had any ideas what is causing it in the first place.
on the internal ATA connection
ATA 0: ID 0: Extended HFS+ 6G (Internal of course)
ATA 1: ID 0: Extended HFS+ 4G (also internal)
A Quantum drive
SCSI0: ID 5: External HFS 4G (External)
A Seagate drive
SCSI0: ID 6: External HFS+ 2G (External)
A Seagate drive
ATA 1: ID 1: CD player
Update: I withheld this mail for a bit to try to identify anything
concrete any further. I've been running this system now for about
a month and it seems to no longer be misbehaving as long as I don't
try to change anything like... start up drive. I'm reluctant to do
anything until I understand what has been happening and why.
Could the HFS or HFS+ have anything to do with it?
As a 'late thought' it occurs to me that perhaps a bad pram battery
might do this? Its stayed plugged in since that first bout where it
behaved so badly.
Thanks
Don
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