Hi Guys and Gals, I'm having problems with one of my PowerTowerPros and it is about to drive me nuts! It is currently configured like this:
1024 MB RAM Sonnet 500 MHz G3 processor 2 Adaptec 2930 SCSI cards 1 OrangeMicro USB/FireWire Link card 2 ATX Video cards Two Quantum drives in the raid rack stripe formatted with FWB Toolkit 4.5.2 Two IBM HD also formatted as a stripe with FWB 1 Teac 24X CD 1 Yamaha CD-RW More external devices that I care to count ;) This system works great running OS 8.6. Absolutely no problems at all. It runs 24 hours a day and is stable and solid as a rock. What I want to do is upgrade to 9.1 or above so that I can use my Firewire card. I can boot from system CD's that contain OS 9.x and the system works fine. The problem is that I can't load OS 9 on any drive and get the system to boot. I have tried: Formatting a drive with Apple drivers, several versions of FWB drivers and also Intech HD SpeedTools drivers. No luck. I tried connecting each of these drives to the Adaptec cards, where I know are bootable. I have also connected directly to both of the onboard SCSI buses. Still can't boot the system. I have tried several installs of OS 9 from several install disks. I tried installing 9.0, 9.0.4, 9.1, 9.2.1 and 9.2.2. I have tried the patches from OS9Forever. Still no luck. I have tried booting without any external devices attached. I checked LEM, Google, Dogpile, and searched the PowerComputing list archives and tried everything else I could think of. I checked the archives as PowerWatch. I pulled a working drive from another PTP that was running 9.1 on a NewerTech 400/200 G3 and put it in the problem system. It wouldn't boot either. Put the drive back in it's original machine and it is happily running again. I reconnect the 8.6 drives back to the problem machine and it is also running fine. For the life of me I can't understand why I can't get 9.1 to run on this thing. I've been screwing with it for two days now. I have checked and updated every driver for every device I have including the Sonnet card. Does anyone have any idea what is wrong, what I may have missed and what I can do to get 9.1 to run on this Mac? What really baffles me is that I can boot and run from a CD with 9.1 on it. Help! -- and thanks, David -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- The box said "Requires Windows 95, or better." So I bought a Macintosh, or two, or three or....... -- Power Computing is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Power Computing list info: <http://lowendmac.com/power/list.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; 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]> List archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powercomputing%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
