I have a G3 B&W which I purchased used on eBay. Several months after I bought it, the 9GB drive went flaky and I got a 18GB to replace it.
Neither drive has an OS on it. The drives are on a Ultra SCSI bus. I can't
boot off either a MacOS X installation CD or a MacOS 9 installation CD. On
X the CD starts to boot and then when the gray screen with the Apple
appears, the circle just spins forever. With the 9 CD, the Mac shows up and
just sits there forever. If I disconnect the cable from the SCSI card, the
boot will continue. But this does me no good since there is no HD to
install on.
Why don't you have any IDE drives? You should pick up a 20 to 40 gig IDE drive and make 2 partitions on it - one for OS X and one for OS 9. Then disconnect the SCSI card and install the OSes on their partitions. This saves your SCSI drives for your work. On my G4 I have a 40GB IDE drive split into 4 partitions - OS X = 8GB - OS 9 = 2GB - Applications = 10GB - Documents = 20GB. I also have internal SCSI drives I use as video capture disks, scratch disks, and for holding projects "in progress".
-= Ken =-
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