Philip Stortz writes: >Dan Knight wrote: >> >> 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. > >what did you use to format it? my guess would be that X doesn't like to >boot with some of the non-X drivers. but that's only a guess, but easy to >try, assuming you didn't already format it from X with the apple X formatter.
I used Disk Utility, which comes with OS X, to partition the drives. Bruce Guthrie writes: >Got me, I have a beige G3 asd well and have a WD 7200rpm 40 gig drive >and it boots just fine. I can't say much other then try again. Also one >quick question, what rom do you have the c rom? Rev. B >Also are you first formatting the drive under os 9.2.1 or just under OS >X? Also which OS X do you have? OS X 10.1.5 Mark Benson writes: >> I can format the drive, install OS X with Carbon Copy Cloner, > >TRy installing a fresh copy of OS X 10.1. I was hoping to avoid that. You have no idea how hard it's going to be to find my 10.x installer, the 10.1 update, etc. -- but that's the next thing I'll try. Thanks for all the advice. -- 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> Every day is payday in a labor of love. -- 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:g-list@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:g-list-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:g-list-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lemlists.com> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
