On Dec 27, 2008, at 11:45 AM, Michael B. in Cincinnati wrote: > The funny thing is that if I click on an OS9 app, it loads and runs.
This isn't funny, this is normal behavior for Classic applications under OS X. > It just won't load at boot like it used to. I'm still not following you here. I think you may be saying "I'm booted in OS X, but when I click on an OS 9 app instead of seeing the OS 9 (Classic) boot process window open, I'm having the OS 9 app load and run directly? If this is the case, then you've got Classic set up to load automatically on boot and not show the boot window. This means that Classic is already running with when you click on the OS 9 app. You'd adjust this behavior in System Preferences>Classic. You'd need to uncheck the boxes "Start Classic when you login" and "Hide Classic when starting" under the "Start/Stop" tab. If you are trying to boot OS 9 directly either by selecting it in Startup Disk, using the Option key selection, or holding the "9" key at startup, and it's not booting, this could be many things. Booting a SATA PCI card HD is dependent upon firmware on the PCI card, not all SATA PCI can boot in Macs. The firmware on the card might not support OS 9 booting, it may be OS X only? If your OS 9 and OS X are on the same partition (I believe yours are cloned together?) then the OS 9 System can become unblessed and not boot. Older versions of Carbon Copy Cloner have a "Bless" function for blessing the System folder, but I'm not sure if the newest CCC has this function? You'll need to be sure the OS 9 System is blessed to be bootable. I think the time of OS 9 and Classic is over. You should look for a native OS X program to replace whatever OS 9 programs you're still using. OS 9 and Classic are more burden than any PATA HD. If you're trying to squeeze out performance, I'm very dubious that not using the PATA bus will result in any appreciable performance gain? For performance, I'd suggest you get two identical SATA HDs and stripe them in a RAID 0 set, then backup this set using a single internal or external HD (use the PATA bus if necessary, although a Firewire external SATA based HD may be cheaper than a large PATA HD?). The single backup HD needs to be twice the size of the two RAID set individual HDs. To get the full speed advantage of RAID 0 each HD in the pair needs its own dedicated bus, you can't place both sharing the same bus. RAID 0 can nearly double the HD access speed, but you need reliable backup. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
