Hi Bryan,
Perhaps you need to get the correct pin settings for the drive from the manufactures literature, most likely on their web site.
On the few IDE drives that I've swapped around, I've noticed that some have 8 and the others have 10 pins. Also, they don't always clearly indicate on the drive which settings to use for the various setups - slave, master, neutral..
Another thing that might help is to properly reset the motherboard via the internal button on the board. After doing this, try resetting the PRAM and rebuilding the desktop
Other than these suggestions, I don't know what else to suggest. My guess is that someone more knowledgeable can better help you out.
All the best with it.
Bill
At 2:07 PM -0600 27/11/2004, Bryan Blumer wrote:
I have a Beige Tower that I am having a slight "problem" with. I just replaced the Logic Board, then lost my CD-ROM. I did some surfing around to try to figure out why, since it happened in my DT too, and decided to just set the hard disk to "master" and the CD-ROM to "slave". All right so far. I power it up and open firmware displays "can't OPEN:" 30 times then boots normally. I performed the same modification to my Beige desktop running 10.2.8 with no error message. In fact, it seems that switching to master/slave on my G3/500 increased boot speed, while on my underclocked tower I get the open firmware message, followed by normal booting into os 9.1 (get the "bomb" system error if I go to 9.2. Something with audio) Any ideas? It's nothing more than a minor annoyance, since I just installed the board today and have intentions of just using it for my music library. The original had a SCSI card in it. Now, I have a drive from a PC in it.
Bryan
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