My Beige 233 rev A hangs at the gray screen a few seconds after the smiley mac appears when I try to boot into 9.2.2. after being in OS X 10.2.8. This occurred after a firmware update1.6.4 was applied to my ATTO UL2D SCSI card in 9.2.2, then I booted into OS X. OS X sees the card OK but still can't get it to see the drive. I have proven the card, cable, and drive to all be individually good but just not when used together. It seems like the OS X driver for the UL2D is wrong or not being loaded or something. The driver I have is ATTOExpressPCI.kext v. 1.1.0. Anybody know of another that works with this?
Anyway...when I pull the card I can boot into 9.2.2. An ATTO troubleshooting doc says to boot while holding Cmd-Shift-D to disable the card without physically removing it, then re-flash. This did not work. The drive made some weird noises and the boot locked. I have never heard of this key combo command and could not find validity of it on a net search. Anyone?
It's probably just a private keyboard command that the ATTO's driver checks for when it loads. An off switch, as it were. Kindof like how pressing ~ would tell the old Virtual extension to disable itself.
I need to get back to OS 9 to flash firmware to an earlier version but I'm kinda in a catch-22.
Try booting with nothing attached to the ATTO card?
Try renaming the ATTO driver, in OS 9, so it falls alphabetically elsewhere in the sequence. IOW, let some init crawl occur before it loads... To verify it's what causes the hang.
- Dan.
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