----- Original Message ----
> From: Paul Stamsen <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Wed, November 17, 2010 5:48:32 PM
> Subject: Re: Getting there
>
> Previously, at 3:40 PM -0700 11/17/10, Bruce Johnson wrote:
> >Are you SURE about the 'no problems in the past'? Because gray disks are
> >system-specific restore disks, and typically do not work on other systems.
>
> X my heart. I used XPF and it worked, I dunno, sometime its macMagic, I
> guess.
>;-)
>
> P.
>
Glad you got it all working.
Well, generally Tiger will install with no problem with retail (black) install
disk. I writing this from a B&W with an install of Tiger I did 6 months ago. It
went fast and I it did a number of other upgrades at that time with no problems.
However, here's a random thought; perhaps your gray disks don't play well with
the logic board IDE controller. I remember several years ago I tried to install
Panther on a rev1 B&W. The install disks were gray eMac disks purchased from
OWC
as universal installs. The Panther disks worked fine with other rev2 B&W's
After hours of failed attempts including using Xpost, I finally got Panther to
install on a SCSI drive connected to a PCI SCSI card; still no success with the
IDE HD. Finally, in desperation I switched the ribbon cables from the ATA
buses.
Once the HD was connected to the optical bus the install was successful -- very
slow but it worked.
That B&W was taken out of service 6 months ago and replaced by the one I am
using now. The morale of the story, if there is one, some old rev1 B&W's are
just FUBR. --glen
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