Hi All,
I am posting this for Bruce, who on top of the following issues, has been having problems posting lately to this list...
I have a MDD dual boot 1.25 GHz G4. I have several IDE hard disks in a UMAX
S900 and I need to transfer them to the MDD. They've been used on a Sonnet
Tempo PCI-IDE card and so have SCSI drivers installed. I made this transfer to
the new MDD a couple of weeks ago and all was well for about a week. The
system then had a progression of kernel panics that I could not resolve. An
attempted boot into Panther, OS9.2.2 or even to the Install DVD eventually always
produced a kernel panic at the gray apple/gray screen, even with only the stock
Apple-installed RAM and HDD (Hitachi) present. An Apple tech got it going
again (don't really know why, it booted to the Install DVD for him after sitting
untouched for a week).
Now it's time to start the HDD and large database transfers again. When I
did this previously I initialized the HDDs in the new MDD using OS 9.2.1 Drive
Setup (OS9 IDE driver). But I left all SCSI driver-related partions in place
so I could put the HDDs back into the UMAX and copy the databases back onto
them, all 240GB. Any other method of transferring this amount of data seemed out
of the question. These HDDs ended up having patch partitions and partions
for both SCSI and IDE drivers. I determined this using FWB HD Toolkit only to
view the partitions. My question -- will the presence of both SCSI and IDE
drivers result in some potential conflict/instability that might produce kernel
panic? All four of the disks in the MDD had these dual driver partitions.
BTW, the Apple tech recommended that I not partition the disks into multiple
mountable volumes with OSX. I neglected to mention the dual driver partioning
when I described the configuration and history of my problem.
-Bruce bfholi @aol .com
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