Biege woes: Zapping pram, IDE connectors.. nop slaves? Err, no slaves.
Well, awhile ago my then-working beige G3 (with OWC g4/500 upgrade) was working fine.. until the drive decided to freeze on me. Hey, that's life.. I was going to re-do it anyway, just needed t find some time, pull out the 2940U2W and LVD drive, pull out the HP CDRW, and just use a pair of IDE drives and the IDE CDRW I bought (a Cendyne, based on this list, only to find out that it may not be teh right Cendyne, but, we'll cross that bridge). Now, I get everything together, pull all the old drives out, put in an old 9gb IDE and a 60gb IDE on one chain, the aforementioned Cendyne on the other.. and then I realize: I have no idea which connector on the motherboard is IDE-1. There's a CSI connector, an IDE, another IDE< then a power.. is IDE-1 closer to the SCSI or power connector? So, I've been fiddlign witht hat, and I was being hit with one of two messages, depending on what sort of config I had, either the CAN'T OPEN: message or NO BOOTABLE HFS PARTITION (this was the original error with Cendyne CDRW). Figuring I needed to clear the pram, I attempted to do the command-alt-p-r keyset. Now, when I do the pram finger dance, I have never, not ONCE gotten it to chime another time. I almost don't think I'm doing it right, or something. it never, ever chimes. Ever. I tried to do this on an old SE/30 sitting in a closet, and it too never chimes: Am I retarded? :) No, seriously.. what am I doing wrong when it comes to this? I must be doing it in the correct time frame, because I can restart with command-alt-o-f and get the open firmware prompt. When I attempt to do the same thing with PR, it just sits there, boots to a plain white screen and sits there. I've tried pulling the pram battery for about 30 seconds, I've tried the cuda switch, I've tried "set-defaults" and then "reset-all" at the firmware's OK> prompt, and I've sat tehre repeatedly tried to clear the pram.. Nothin. As I said, I've done SOMETHING because now I no longer get the other error messages, I just get a plain, white screen. Where have I failed, and how can I make my stupid mac boot again? This is really, really annoying. I assume its not memory or CPU because it wouldn't chime at me before sitting there at teh white screen. Anyone have any suggestions at all? Also, the first revision beige G3 macs don't support slave drives? Someone said that if I have the Rage II+DVD graphic chip, I've got a first revision G3. Can someone confirm this, and then tell me how no one at Apple noticed that it couldn't support slave drives before they shipped it? Bah. -g. -- http://www.infotainment.org <-> more fun than a poke in your eye. http://www.eighteenpercent.com <-> photography and portfolio. -- 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
