In my Yikes!, Tiger 10.4.11, I have a Sonnet ATA/100 PCI card that I have one 80GB Seagate linked to it. I don't have any drives off the onboard, mobo IDE channel.
At initial Startup, after a opt-command-P-R, my screen flashes the folder ? / Mac OS Icon, then finds the HD, and boots fine thereafter. Subsequent Restarts appear to go straight to the drive after flashing a one-line height rectangular, hardly readable, highlighted message. Is this message just the address of the IDE channel being used? something like pci;0:2 etc ... I can't see it all, but remember something similar from using XPF on my PowerPC 8500. Is this normal behavior booting off a PCI IDE card in a PCI Graphics, when no other drive is on the mobo channel? Would it be advantageous to use XPF just for the Startup phase? I've been experimenting (uh-oh) ... and an Adaptec AUA-3020A Rev B, USB2/FW400 card began acting up, requiring its removal. Maybe due to using XPF ... maybe due to Adaptec. I'm currently successfully using the Apple Startup after using XPF with its Uninstall-ation, hoping the Boot Cache (name?) has been replaced correctly. I replaced the Adaptec with a Sonnet Tango USB1/ FW400, and it is loading properly. Startup is after removing/ replacing the Battery. Comments? Bill Connelly artsite: http://mysite.verizon.net/moonstoneartstudio myspace: http://www.myspace.com/moonstoneartstudio --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
