On Oct 27, 2004, at 10:22 AM, MikeRF/A2 wrote:
Hi. Strange things happened when using CCC to clone OS X 10.2.8 from a 4 gig ATA to a new 18 gig SCSI on my beige 266 rev A. (Yes, the same one I've been posting about my ATTO card and this 18 GB drive not communicating). I hooked the SCSI drive alone at the end of the existing internal SCSI chain, unterminated. PeterH5322 and the eBay seller of the drive tell me this single-terminated method is how they run these drives, even though it goes against popular SCSI convention (although Peter's are run by a host controller).
In CCC I selected 'make bootable, fix permissions and synchronize drives'. I deleted the OS 9.2.2 system folder, applications, desktop, and documents folders from the items to copy window as I just wanted OS X items, then started the process. It went agonizingly s-l-o-w compared to the same process taking 10 minutes on my iBook to ext. firewire previous clone. I chalked this up to the slower MB bus and internal SCSI bus on the beige.
As I watched the little blue status bar seemingly not moving on the first item, 'applications', I saw several strange items to copy at the end of the list. For the last two, the * is really a large centered dot:
.ds store
.hidden
bin
mach_kernel
sbin
usr
These are all necessary parts of the OS, in fact they're the hidden files that you need CCC to copy to make the new volume bootable.
*T+*HD-ATA (my ATA drive is named HD-ATA) *T+* untitled
These might be disk drivers?
Some of it, I guess, is command line terminal tool stuff which I know nothing about. The last two I have no idea. I wondered why these items would be separate from any enclosing folders or within apps to be copied?
1 1/2 hours later I saw the *T+*HD-ATA file start to copy . Another1/2 hour later nothing had changed, no progress seemed to have been made and the two drives had shut down showing no signs of activity, just the little blue CCC progress bar shimmering without advancing. I clicked on both drives trying to get some activity re-started to no avail. All other items were visible on the new drive. It was after 1 AM, over two hours into this and I quit CCC, knowing it didn't complete it's normal wrap up duties but thinking those last items are unneeded and that it still may have worked.
Well, the newly cloned OS X will not boot (white screen with small type "can't boot" repeated across top of screen). The X system folder does not have the "X" on it, making me think it just needs properly blessed (accomplished thru terminal?). Just curious if anyone has any thoughts on what the deal is here.
The last thing CCC does is 'bless' the system folder I believe.
Will it boot from the 10.3 CD? Try disk repair from the CD and see if it fixes those issues. If no updates have been installed Fix Permissions will work from the CD too.
Worst case, do an Archive&Reinstall onto the scsi drive now that a broken OS X is on it.
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