Hi Ken,
In addition to Terry's comments, another explanation for why your CD drive isn't reading the OS disc my be due to the the fact that you're running a copy of the OS 9.1 disc. Does it actually appear to have been 'pressed' and labeled such that it's a legitimate Apple disc?
My reasoning is that if it's a duplicated disc, then one reason it's possibly not running is that when the disc was 'burned' it became subjected to Apple's copy protection scheme that allows you to copy an OS installation disc; but it in and of itself isn't able to act as a startup disc because the actual system files aren't there. This can happen if the built-in disc burning software of the OS 9 is used.
One way of trying to confirm this is to see if your E-bay copy of the OS disc is readable on another Mac's CD drive. If that Mac can mount the disc, then perhaps the CD drive on your Starmax is faulty. Another option is that regardless of whether or not you have a legitimate copy of the OS 9.1 install disc, the disk is possibly damaged.
Now, and have written all this, it's just occurred to me that, according to memory, you can download a free copy of the Mac OS from Apple's web site. It's been some time since I was at those pages on Apple's site, but I believe you can even download a copy of OS 9.1.
I've just taken a quick look around, and although I've not found the page I thought was there, I did find the following that has older version of the Mac for free to download. The page I found this on is at:
http://www.info.apple.com/support/oldersoftwarelist.html
Hope this helps, to whatever limited extent it may be.
Cheers,
Bill
At 1:19 AM +0000 24/11/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a Starmax (I think 3000) that I bought 2nd hand on Ebay, complete with a Sonnet G3 card. It runs great, and I have OS 8.1 installed. My problem is that it will not seem to read the 9.1 disk that I have. It is supposed to be for all iMacs and Power PC's so it should work, but all it does is spin in the drive without doing anything.
Am I missing something here (like a patch or a pre-loader program) or is the disk I have just not compatible with the Starmax?
BTW, for anyone that knows the models, mine is a desktop model, and I have 144 megs of RAM in it, a 1 gig drive, and the stock IDE CD ROM drive. If you know the model number, that would be nice for future reference.
I know that 9.1 will run on this machine, because I copied the system folder (from my Tech Tools disk) to a blank 1 gig drive and it booted up fine. I just can't get anything else onto the drive. (No CD control by just dragging the system folder onto the blank drive). I also cannot access the internet, because I can't seem to load any drivers without the rest of the operating system files.
Is it mandatory to have an "off the shelf" version of OS 9.1 to run or load onto this machine?
Thanks to all in advance.
Ken Martin
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