More info: The card is aha-2940u2b
Install from CD: No valid filesystems could be found (both computers) In Rescue mode, pDisk can't see the hard drives (both computers) In install from Hard Disk (just for the hell of it, to see the drivers): No aic7xxx driver listed. So, I'm lead to the conclusions that it can't find filesystems because it can't see the drives, because it doesn't have a driver that is compatible with the card. I'm running low on ideas. I still have gobs of patience (luckily) but the new ideas on how to approach this are few and far between. How could I get a driver that works and make it available to the system? I don't have the option of making a boot disk (my company looted the zip drives from the G3's and doesn't have them anymore) unless I get something in ISO format that's bootable that I can burn to a disk on my Wintel box. Michael Snyder Chief Llamaherder - SnyderCreative www.SnyderCreative.com <http://www.SnyderCreative.com> Want to receive the Cynic Gazette newsletter? Click here <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=ADD+ME> and get added to the list. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stew Benedict Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 8:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Life, the Universe and Installing PPC 8 on an extra hard drive On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Michael Snyder wrote: > As a matter of fact, they're both scsi drives (in both machines (the one > that only boots to CD has 2 scsi drives too). Both the scsi's in both of the > machines are connected to a PCI scsi card. Could this be the problem that > I've been facing, why it can't find filesystems? > > This is interesting now.. I just went into rescue mode on the good G3 and it > said ti can't find any disk drives and it wants a driver.. I have no idea > which one to choose, and it gives me about 300 to pick from. > > that's probably the issue then. Do you have any idea what the card is? I don't remeber if lspci is on the rescue CD or not, you could try running it or see what Apple System Profiler has to say about the card. We had some G3's during 8.0 that used the aic7xxx driver (Adaptec) Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft OH/TN, USA http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/
