Any idea what's up with this machine and how I can fix it?
Well, since you wouldn't be able to boot from an external firewire drive anyway, I would try a different internal drive or an external SCSI drive. You're going to want more than 20G before long in any case.
The internal IDE controller can only take one hard drive, not a master and slave as is the normal case. Check the jumpers on the internal drive to be sure it is configured correctly.
Drive Setup tells me it is an ATA drive on Bus 1, ID 0, LUN 0, so I'm guessing it's a secondary master. Still, it might not hurt to switch the CD & HD so that the CD is secondary master and the HD is primary master.
After Drive Setup completes its search for bad blocks (not long now) I'll try another install, and if that fails, reverse the HD & CD, confirming the primary/master issue at the same time.
Do you have an old SCSI drive lying around? Even a little one could hold OS 9, and you could boot from it (internal or external). A SCSI Zip drive would work, too. A different IDE drive would also be worth testing, if available, but wouldn't rule out controller or cable problems.
I guess, since all your RAM tests were using slot 1, you might try leaving that slot empty.
Dan
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