Trying to set-up a larger IDE drive in my Rev 1 B&W/300, OS9.2.2. Intermittently giving "clock set to date before..." message on booting.
That probably indicates a dying PRAM battery. If you're in a hurry you can pick one up for ~$10 at Rat Shack. OWC (macsales.com) usually has good prices on them ($3-6 depending on stock on hand) if you can wait a couple of days for them to arrive.
I have 2 SCSI Wide drives running from a card, one of these being the startup disc. Neither has jumpers.
I doubt the source of your problem's here, but more details on the drives and which SCSI card would be nice....
I removed the stock Quantum Fireball EX 6gb IDE drive and fitted a 120gb Maxtor DiamondMax Plus9 ATA/133, which came from a Windoze box, in its place. Initially I left the jumper as it came, on the left pins, set to J50 DS (Master).
Have you tried it with no jumper at all? Dunno why but that has occasionally done the trick for me in otherwise baffling situations.
Disconnected 120gb and the flashing face/? folder appeared, then booted normally. Jumpers on the 120gb are, left to right: J50 DS (Master) J48 CS (Enabled) J46 Cap Limit J44 one pin only J42 No jumpers is DS (Slave) So the booting proicess is unstable... I can get more than one result if I keep doing the same thing.
And people recommend ATA over SCSI because it's simpler....yeah, right! I've never had as much trouble with SCSI as with ATA. IMO ATA drives are cheaper for good reason.
What I'd try at this point is: disconnect SCSI drives and pull the card; disconnect all other drives except the CD-ROM; set the Maxtor to Master and connect it; press and hold the CUDA button for ~20 seconds; try to startup from the Jaguar Install Disk and see what happens....
What I want to do is load OS9.2 on this Windoze HD, then upgrade to OS10.2.
You don't have to install OS 9.x first. You do wanna be sure that OS 9 drivers are installed on the drive, though. This won't be done automatically by the OS X installer. You'd need to open Disk Utility after you boot from the OS X Install disk and initialize the entire drive (not just a volume on the drive) from the Erase tab, selecting the "Install OS 9 Drivers" option. You can install 9.2 later if you want.
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