After all we've been through, anyone want to hazard a guess as to why I can't upgrade to 10.4.1? It states my volume does not me the necessary requirements, it has plenty of available space??? Sheeesh!
On Dec 16, 11:33 am, Bill Connelly <billycarm...@verizon.net> wrote: > 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
