Greetings all,
Is it possible that some hard drives (ATA of course) would work w/ a beige
G3 but not with a B+W? Or, pray tell, are "new world" Macs fussier about
hard drives (like they are on RAM)?
I have an Apple OEM 4gig ATA drive. Installed in a beige G3 tower, I booted
off an OS 9.2.1 CD: the drive mounted and responded to a low-level
(zero-out) formatting w/ out a hitch.
I installed the same HD into a B+W (rev. 1 board), and also booted up in OS
9.2.1 - the HD would not mount
I took the same machine/same HD and booted off of a Jaguar CD:
1) Disk Utility saw the HD and attempted to format and/or partition,
appeared to be successful, but was not really based on the results that
follow (note: an error message never appeared)
2) Repair would attempt to repair the drive, but suspiciously did so
way-too-fast.
3) OS X installer never saw the drive
I find this odd. Any comments?
Best regards,
Dana
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