On Dec 16, 2009, at 11:18 AM, Brother Eye wrote: > Everyone, > I am happy to report that my PowerMac G4 is now running smoothly at > 10.4. I think the influx of suggestions helped me get out of my tunnel > vision view of the problem. I ran the CMD+V command as suggested and > found both a warning about the SCSI and then a long IO ATA message and > the machine never progressed from there. So I first started with the > easiest solution and pulled the SCSI and tried again. The SCSI warning > was gone of course, but the IO message remained. From there I decided > to tackle the ATA issue and as Carmonnes and others suggested, I > removed the smaller OG HDD that was installed and left only the large > HDD with Tiger installed in place. Once I started back up everything > ran fine, Tiger booted and loaded and now the system actually runs > much faster than it did when I was on Panther. At some point I will > probably add in a larger HDD I have but keep the HDD order the same > and see if that causes any issues. Thanks again to everyone for your > input, this is truly what the internet is really all about! > > Happy Holidays, > > Ty >
When you add in a second ATA drive, if on the same cable, make sure you have both drives set properly, "Master" and "Slave", or "Cable Select" if that is what they function better as. Haven't been following all the details of the thread, but perhaps that was contributing to the original problem? -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
