"A.Tuazon" wrote:

> Hi, I have a Rev.1 G3 B&W/300 with 448 megs of RAM and I recently purchased
> OS X (10.1).  With OS X I also got the final(?) version of OS 9 (9.2).

Latest update for OS X is 10.1.3. Latest update for OS 9.2 is 9.2.2.

> I have been having problems trying to get either OS to work properly.  OS
> 9.2
> gives me (every now and then) a "System bus error" right at start-up or
> sometimes just when the desktop loads up

Have you done a clean-install of OS 9? Also if you use third-party software
with OS 9, have you updated those too for OS 9.2?

> and OS X sometimes gives me a
> kernal panic.  Now when I say sometimes, I mean that both OS do work at
> times and I was able to do the current software upgrades for both of them,
> but still I get the same errors.

Do you have extra PCI cards installed besides the ATI Rage 128? Usually PCI
SCSI do not work very well with OS X. My B&W wouldn't even boot from the OS X
CD until I pulled my Adaptec 2930 CU SCSI card. Also PCI Voodoo cards usually
give kernal panics.

> I also recently replaced my original 6 gig HD with a Maxtor Fireball 30 gig
> 7200 rpm HD and this new hard drive has been partitioned in half with each
> OS residing in one of the partitions.  I did a Disk First Aid check and it
> found no problems with the partitions.  Could the problem be the new hard
> drive?  I read somewhere on one of the links on LEM that the Rev.1 might
> experience problems handling larger hard drives due to it's IDE controller
> chip.  I hope someone can help.

Could be, I've heard it before. Be sure to check
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/G3-ZONE/yosemite/IDE/ too about this issue. You can
also d/l a little application there which can check if your HD has corruption
problems, because of that IDE problem.

I myself haven't had any corruption problems either with a 30 gig Maxtor as
master or as slave to my 6 gig stock HD on my Rev1 B&W G3 350.
The only difference is that my Maxtor 30 gig is a Maxtor DiamondPlus, while
yours is actually a Quantum Fireball.

HTH,
Marc


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