Re: [G] Hard Drive Help: IDE vs. SCSI?

[Admin]

Knowing that Bruce is rarely wrong, this post bothered me enough that I 
shut down my Beige DT, opened it up and looked. Mine is as I described, 
I also have a MT with the CUDA in the same place. (What this means as 
far as I'm concerned is that the different REV levels of the MB have 
the CUDA in different places. (Something I'm glad to find out)

On Friday, March 25, 2005, at 05:30 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Mar 25, 2005, at 3:20 PM, Yersinia wrote:
Admin writes,
<Try 'unplugging' the SCSI cable from 'Nucleolus' , hit CUDA, and let 
it
take a while-- It SHOULD find 'XXX' and 9.1 and boot from there.>

Ohhh dear. Okay, so what is CUDA, what does it look like, and where 
do I
find it? Presuming the phone call I'll have to make to my boyfriend 
will
be enough for him to talk me through opening up my G3 and finding the
right cable to pull......
The cuda switch on a beige is down on the motherboard by the processor 
slot. It looks like a small 3-4 mm square box with a round black dot 
in the middle of it. With the computer off you can press it with the 
eraser end of a pencil.

I have never had any luck with 'using the CUDA RESET' any way other 
than having the machine powered on, and letting the 'CUDA' routine 
'turn it off'. (Just MY experience.)
The switch description, and pencil suggestion are 'right on'.

Chuck D.
This is a picture of one on a different Mac motherboard 
<http://www.aticonsult.com/images/StarMax3160_Cuda440.jpg> but the 
switch is the same.


<With the Rev1 board, the CD and Nucleolus need to be seperated. I.E 
one
on each of the two available IDE buss connectors. (set them both as
'master')>

This is bad advice. If one drive is SCSI it has nothing to do with the 
IDE drive or it's visibility.

Most likely the new drive isn't properly connected, a cable has come 
lose somewhere else or it's a master/slave issue with another drive on 
the same IDE bus.

I have had one Beige MT that didn't want to boot with an IDE drive 
attached to the IDE cable by itself when the drive was jumpered for 
Master. I had to remove the jumper and have nothing set on the drive.

Then it booted. I don't know if this was a rom issue, a drive issue or 
what. If it still doesn't show, and it's by itself on the bus, try 
that.

--
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pha acy
Information Technology Group
Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs
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