On Jun 3, 2005, at 10:29 PM, Dana Collins wrote:
Hello Colleagues,
Earlier I wrote asking for help with a bootup issue on my G3.
It turned out to be a hard drive, where one of the Philips controller
chips
actually exploded! (a first for me!). It was the OS 9 drive, which
left the
OS X drive still useable.
Alas, the incident appears to have taken the motherboard ATA
controller with
it.
Fortunately, I have a spare bus on my Sonnet ATA-133 controller. So,
the OS
X drive is configured as master on Bus 2 of the Sonnet card. When I
boot off
of a CD (OS 9), the drive mounts fine. Now, my problem..
OS X refuses to boot off of the ATA card. It *should* but doesn't. Has
anybody gotten their OS X boot drive to boot off of a controller card
(and
not the motherboard)? Surely this should be a common configuration!
Thank you for your consideration,
Dana
Sorry about the explosion Dana, but glad you have it working somewhat
again. I have not gotten around to trying the ATA card I bought from
Lou Wilson some time ago, but I too would be interested in the answer
as I was planning to boot from a drive connected to this card.
Just a message from Doug...
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