>Hi Dan, iMacers, eMacers:
>
>At 11/21/03 11:17 AM -0500, dan_A wrote:
>
>I have the old drive in my hand right now and the jumper setting is in
a horizontal instead of the vertical >shown in newer drives. I'm going
on to the WD site right now to see if I can get an image of this setting.
>It looks like it's a master setting. Thanks for your input.
>
>Let us know if you get it working or not.
>
>--
>Regards,
>Allen
Hi Allen and all the other listers-
Here's the end of the story. The problems that I had with the WD 40GB
drive not being bootable was not the partitioning or loading sequence or
placement of OS 10.2 or OS 9.*. Nor was it the jumper settings for
Slave or Master. The drive was simply defective. It would not utilize
boot blocks nor allow them to be formatted in no matter what was tried--and
everything was tried. I tried everything from this list and about 1/2 a
dozen ideas from the Mac Wizard list, and nothing worked. What did work
immediately a perfectly, was a Seagate replacement drive from the
vendor. It came with jumper settings and other info as against nothing
from WD. But the WD drive's jumper setting was correct, as a master. The
other piece of info is that other people upgrading a drive on an old,
333Mhz Cherry in my case, might have a problem. It seems that most of
the newer drives come with a jumper setting that these old Macs cant use.
They are set to "Cable Select" which automatically selects the setting
of the drive based on what it detects on the cable.
If anyone is interested in seeing what Seagate says about this, here is
the URL
<http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/ref/jumper_settings.html>
I thank everyone for their help. My granddaughters are happily sailing with OS 10.2.8. It works surprisingly well on their old iMac which has only 288 Megs of RAM.
dan_A
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