Hi there, here's my OS X experience on a B&W G3 [long]. Last week I got my copy of OS X together with the 10.1 update. The day before yesterday I decided to install it on my oc'ed B&W G3 350 rev1. I wanted to install it onto the second partition of my master HD, a 6 GB Quantum (partitioned with latest version [3.4] of Intech HardDisk SpeedTools). First partition has 9.1 on it. I first copied that OS onto the second partition, updated it to 9.2.1, then cleaned the sysfolder to have a bare bones OS for the Classic environment. Then I tried to start from the OS X 10.0 CD. As I already had expected a nogo, a freeze at spinning cursor. So I pulled all third-party h/w (original Adaptec 2930U SCSI card, Voodoo 5 5500, extra 256 MB, slave Maxtor 30 GB HD). Would boot now from CD. Couldn't find the option in the installer to disable the 'update the HD driver' option so I thought WTH and installed it. Install went fine, and after a reboot and boot of the 10.1 CD, that update went fine also. I played a bit with the OS, surfed the net etc etc. I was impressed by the speed and the GUI. Didn't add my h/w yet.
Yesterday I decided to put everything back in the Mac and also as expected two things didn't work. OS X will boot with the SCSI card, but won't mount the Jaz disks. I know there's a beta driver for this SCSI card for OS X. And when I install the Voodoo 5 I get a kernel panic at boot. Well, I thought WTH, I pull the Voodoo and use the ATI Rage 128 for a while. But, here it comes, I thought I start from the OS 9.1 partition so I select it in the Startup Disk prefs. I reboot and see the OS X boot screen... Hmm... Back to the Startup Disk prefs and lock the OS 9.1 partition. Reboot. OS X... Reboot and hold Option. No options, and OS X starts immediately... OK I think I start from the OS 9.1 CD. Well that works, sort of. When I see the desktop the Finder unexpectedly quits and comes back to life. And then the messages 'there's a problem with ... Disk, data maybe lost' for all three partitons. Oh shit I think... So I immediately try copying the most important files/folders such as the OS 9.1 sysfolder to the Maxtor HD, but get 'there has been a disk error'. So therefor I booted back into OS X and from there I could safely back up files onto the Maxtor. Then booted off the 9.1 CD again and tried to fix the HD with Disk First Aid and DiskWarrior 2.1. Well even DW couldn't fix it, 'drive damaged upon repair' or so. Well I wiped the HD with Drive Setup 2.0.3 for OS 9.1 into three partitions again and copied the 9.1 sysfolder back to the second partition. I have reserved the first for OS X later on :) So OS 9.1 for now... The reason I can think of why this problem has occurred is that the HD wasn't formatted with DS but with Intech HardDisk SpeedTools. Thanks for reading if you got till here :) Sorry for the long post. I just wanted to share my first time experience with you guys :) Marc -- Marc van Gemert | MacSonar Support Team http://www.macsonar.net | http://www.macdesk.net ------------------------------------------------- "Computer games don't affect kids. If Pacman affected our generation, we'd be all be running around in darkened rooms munching pills and listening to repetitive music." -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
