I am only trying to have one hard drive installed at a time, and I want to set it up as the boot drive. I am not quite sophisticated nor interested enough to figure out how to put two hard drives on my ATA bus, especially since I really want to keep that third drive bay open to take advantage of that nice SCSI cable sitting in there. I have some even OLDER Macs I need to keep running, and they all require SCSI drives. I have tried the Seagate drive with the jumpers set to either the "single drive" setting, or the "cable select" setting. I have not tried the Quantum drive with an alternative jumper setting.
On Monday, April 14, 2014 10:17:53 PM UTC-4, mhfadams wrote: > > On Apr 14, 2014, at 13:16 , Iamanamma wrote: > > > I took one out because I thought it was bad. Hard drive set up was not > recognizing the hard drive on the ATA bus. I was using > an OS 8.6 install > disk to start up so I could re-format it and re-install the OS. > > You had two drives, or just one? > If two, is it the boot drive that was suspect, or the other one? > > > Why on earth would OS 9.2 recognize the drive, but not OS 8.6? > > Newer systems are always being updated to handle improved drive > technologies, so it is quite possible that 9.2 would see something that 8.6 > didn't. > The size of the drives is also important, as every OS version and machine > have their own limits. Is the Seagate larger than the Quantum? > Is the Seagate larger that 128 GB ? > > Is it the Seagate that is only being seen by OS 9.2? or the Quantum ? > > > Could this be a simple as a jumper problem? The old drive I took out > was a Quantum Fireball, the new one I put in is a Seagate. > > Yes, it could be, but if OS 9 is seeing the drive and OS 8 is not, then > that is less likely. > > If you have two drives installed, and one is set to 'master' or 'slave' > then the other drive needs to be set to the other setting. > If one drive is 'cable select' then so should the other. > > > > Manoah F. Adams > federaladamsfamily.com/developer > > -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
