Andrew Grebneff wrote:
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.
This sounds like a classic case of a dead or soon to be dead pram battery.
As for the drives, I would do the following:
Set the Maxtor IDE drive as master. Attach it at the end of the IDE
cable, and have it be the only IDE hard drive (avoids the Rev 1 IDE
corruption problem)
Jumper 46 should be used only if the system can't see the full capacity
of the drive. It's used primarily with older x86 machines with a BIOS
limitation of $FOO gigs ($FOO being 8, 136, whatever it may be, it's
lower than the full drive capacity). Since the Maxtor is 120 in size,
you /shouldn't/ have to use that jumper. Keep it in mind if you are
still having problems with the drive after the pram battery has been
replaced.
For the full system setup (I'm listing a few more steps just to be
paranoid and make sure everything is working normally). Oh yes, your
original post made it sound like all the drives are blank, so:
Pull the SCSI card. Replace the pram battery. Set up the IDE drive as
above. Reset the pram (cuda switch will work fine). Boot the system
and install the OS (Per Gene, you can install 9 after 10, but I don't
know if 10 will see the system folder and set itself up for classic use
or not).
Once the OS is up and running, install the scsi card. Make sure the
system can see the drives. Once that is done, you know the pram
settings are correct. To be even more paranoid, reboot the system a few
times just to see if it boots off the drive correctly and doesn't give
the 'I can't find myself' question mark. Once you are satisfied that it
will not do this any longer, reinstall to the SCSI drives, boot off the
scsi drives, set your hair on fire, whatever, you should be good to go.
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