Here is some contrarian advice re Beige G3s and IDE, even if you chose to save it as last resort approach... I have had amazing success with drives that didn't want to behave by setting both drives on an IDE bus to Cable Select. YMMV
On Nov 27, 2004, at 15:43, An Internet nut who still considers E-mail to be a wrote:
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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