HI Bruce,
Thank you for the response.
To answer your question, yes, booting off of CD allows me to see all the
drives ("all" meaning the two remaining drives on the unit, the OS X drive
formerly on the motherboard and now on Bus 2 of the ATA controller, and my
audio scratch drive on Bus 1 of the ATA controller).That being said, I have gotten the Mac to boot twice now, but in both occurrences, I have had to start up the Mac, wait for it to come to the Classic blinking "? mark", force a reboot with zapping the PRAM, then wait an egregiously long time for the Mac to finally give up on the native ATA bus and opt for the OS X drive (this with holding down the "X" key). I don't believe this is the way it was meant to operate. Best regards, Dana On 6/4/05 11:32 AM, Bruce Johnson of [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent > > On Jun 3, 2005, at 7:29 PM, Dana Collins wrote: > >> 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! >> > > I had no problem with my Siig controller; the boot drive on my old > Beige always ran off of it. Even let me use an 80 gb drive, > unpartitioned as the boot. > > That said, Sonnet does funky stuff in their firmware. If you boot > from the CD is the drive visible to Disk Utility? > >> > > -- > Bruce Johnson > > "no matter where you go, there you are", B. Banzai > > -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
