On Aug 30, 2005, at 3:43 AM, G-List wrote:
9.2.2 in. Could not see any way to close tray but to restart and
again hold button down. Anyway after a lot of messing about, the
CD booted but it did not recognise the HD within its installer
app, did not appear in the "switch" ing.
On my Quicksilver 733, when the machine is running and the CD tray is
open, I can close it by gently pushing on it to start it moving. It
will then propel itself home.
I tried, just to see
whether things could be copied to the HD, perhaps this was
unwise, copying the whole folder of the CD into a new "untitled"
folder on the HD. Fine! (btw, it was slow, my 7600 and 7300 with
ordinary built in SCSI is faster doing such things - I was
expecting a 933MHz and the triple size Bus and huge backside
cache to prove itself a bit).
I do not recall people accusing OS X, especially the early versions, of
being snappy. Wonder if System Profiler can see all components.
Now the HD won't start the machine (perhaps it does not like the
untitled folder with a 9 sys on it in addition to the original
x? And when I start from a CD (in elaborate manner) to try to
remove the untitled folder altogether, the HD does not mount at
all.
A couple things here from David Pogue's book The Missing Manual
(Panther).
With things working normally, and with OS 9 and OS X both installed on
the same hard drive or partition, one can start up in OS X by holding
down the letter X key while the Mac is starting up. It is not clear
whether OS 9 must be "installed" for this. Your copy of OS 9 in that
unnamed folder is not "installed."
With OS 9 and OS X installed on separate drives or partitions, and with
the Mac turned off, turn it on and just as it is lighting up, hold down
the Option key until you see an odd display of the Startup Manger.
This window is supposed to show all disk icons or partitions that
contain working System folders. Then you select/highlight the one you
want and hit Continue. So even if you have the OS 9 CD in the machine,
I hope you can see both the OS 9 and OS X start up disks.
I also tried my Adaptec SCSI U2B card in a PCI slot and an array
of external HDs that I use on a 7300. Just bombed and said to
restart with shift key down. Did this but said the same thing
again. I yanked the power cord and will carry out my work on my
trusty 7300 till I can sort this out with some convincing plan
or idea...
If you can get the machine running off the OS 9 CD, perhaps you will be
able to see the SCSI drives even if you cannot start up from them.
Also, use the Apple System Profiler on that CD to check what it can
identify for you, RAM, ATA buses, etc.
By the way, have you attempted your gyrations with the OS X restore or
install CDs?
Al Poulin
Anger, hate, and revenge are for the devil, forgiveness is for God,
proactive self-defense is for the rest of us.
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