On Oct 23, 2008, at 4:13 PM, insightinmind wrote: > I have an OWC Elite (I think that's the model) hard drive enclosure > that is both USB2 and FW400, an Oxford 911 bridge type setup. > Contains a Seagate 750GB ATA hard drive. Partitioned into Time > Machine, Tiger 10.4.11, OS 9.1, APPS and DOCS partitions. > > CCC did not seem to successfully bless the OS X copy, although the > CCC Log says differently ... it did not show up under Startup Disk > Items when connected via USB2, but it did show up when connected by > FW400. When you look at the partition, no folders had the usual > icons for OS X, Applications, etc. Just plain folders. Would not > startup under OS 9.1 from the FW drive either. > > I was hoping it would boot off the card ... but initial tests > indicate not. I've read where the PCI Graphics won't boot off a FW > off its own channel ... but I was hoping for a different story off a > PCI card. > > Maybe someone knows how to correct this? InTech Speedtools or other > might enable it?
This is complicated. Are you sure the HD was formatted correctly for your PPC Mac (Apple Partition Scheme)? Newer versions of Disk Utility have the Intel Mac (GUID Partition Scheme) as the default, and these won't boot on a PPC Mac. I also have read the B&W and PCI Graphics (Yikes) can't boot from their own built-in Firewire, but some people have reported they have booted successfully, so in my mind the answer isn't known for certain. Perhaps there were different chipsets used in different versions and some boot and some don't boot? PCI card Firewire doesn't normally boot. For the B&W I know some people have used XPostFacto 4.0 to enable Firewire booting using the XPF Helper Disk boot option. The "new world" Macs were only added to XPF at the very end. Since the PCI Graphics is almost identical to the B&W perhaps this would work? PPC Macs generally can't boot via USB, and you're PCI Graphics has USB 1.0 built-in USB, and any USB 2.0 PCI card will never be bootable, so it's correct that no bootable partitions are shown in Startup Disk while connected via USB. The folder icons are a little problematic, I'm not certain of a global solution other than clone again? I don't think you want to be using Intech Speedtools for this HD, although if you're using Disk Utility and OS 9, but sure to check the "OS 9 drivers" when partitioning the HD. I'm not a big fan of so many partitions, and don't see the sense in placing a Time Machine partition on the same HD it's backing up? The idea of backup is two separate HDs, not two partitions on one HD. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
