What an agonizingly frustrating day! Today I tried and tried and tried to get a 30 GB IBM DeskStar drive working in our beige G3/266 under Mac OS X. It should have been easy.
I've been using Macs since 1990 or so and have installed more hard drives than you can shake a stick at. With SCSI, you just had to make sure each had a unique ID and that the last one in the chain was terminated. Things didn't seem that messy with IDE drives. Master. Slave. Third-party cards. It just worked. Back in the good old days prior to Mac OS X, I should say. I absolutely cannot get Mac OS X to boot from the DeskStar. I have connected the IBM drive to the second internal IDE bus as a slave and used the connectors for the Zip drive. I can format the drive, install OS X with Carbon Copy Cloner, and boot from Mac OS 9.2.2, but it will not boot 10.1.5. I can make it a master and connect it to the cables where the CD-ROM drive is usually connected. Same story. I can put it where the primary drive was and run in on that bus, but I cannot boot X from it. I can hook it up to an Acard Hcard (a nice affordable Ultra66 card that swears it's X compatible), do the whole thing yet again, and still not boot. I have partitioned the drive. I have made sure that the first partition is a bit under 8 GB to avoid the well known bug. (Truth be told, I forgot to do that on the first try.) I have set the drive to master and slave, used both internal buses and the Acard, can boot from OS 9.2.2 each and every time, but simply cannot boot into OS X 10.1.5. I also gave it a shot with a Seagate Barracuda drive. Same story. At my age, I cannot afford to pull out any more hair. Any advice greatly appreciated. Dan the listmom -- Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc. <http://cobwebpublishing.com> <http://lowendmac.com> <http://digital-views.com> <http://digigraphica.com> <http://lowendpc.com> <http://reformed.net> Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. -- Rich Cook -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
