I thought I would install a 120 GB IDE drive on my G3. It's
a stock G3 DT 266, with an Asante NIC and a USB card in slots B & C
running 9.2 on the original 4GB Drive (actually 3.5 available). So
I took out the CD drive, set the 120GB pins to master, put the 120GB
on the second IDE bus (ATA0), initialized it into 3 partitions of
25GB, 37GB and 49GB, dragged all the stuff from drive one to
partition one of the new drive and everything worked fine.
Swapped the drives and put the new drive on ATA bus 0. I
can boot from the original drive on bus ATA1, but it will not boot
from the new 120GB drive on ATA bus 0. Actually it did once and then
would not. If I disconnect the original 4GB drive I get bug
question mark. I read a recent column by Dan Knight who couldn't
get his drive to boot from OSX (but it would work from OS9). So I
took his advice, unplugged everything, including the battery (that I
checked) left it overnight, put the battery back, hit the CUDA
switch, tightened up the monitor connections and hit the button and
it booted from the 120GB ATA0 drive ! Hooray ! I hit restart and it
flailed around and booted from the 4GB ATA1 drive. I shut down,
disconnected the ATA1 drive, hit startup and it won't recognized the
120GB ATA0 drive and boot. Reconnected the the 4GB drive to ATA1
and everything boots fine and I see the 120GB ATA0 drive and it works
fine and so forth.
Why Won't the 120 GB Drive boot up the machine?
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