system:
Umax s900 with Sonnet G3 400 MHz, 464? Ram, 2 cd roms and zip drive, 2 four
gig hds, twin mirco video and e100 card.
It did work beautifully at one time, I even had os 10.1 on it for a while.
But now that I want 9.2 only I have troubles
Situation 1:
When I have my e100 card installed the system hangs on a white/grey boot
screen with my pointer in the top left corver and I have no mouse control.
Once I replace the e100 card, or remove it, I am able to boot from floppy
any ideas? Is my e100 card suddenly dead?
Situation 2:
I am having trouble booting to anything but a floppy. I have an os 9 cd
which willl boot my powerbook without any problem. When I place in in
either drive, all I get is the floppy icon with a question mark in it. I am
unable to use either hd to boot from (long story there...) I have an os 8.5
floppy which the system will boot from with no problem. I have tried many
things: flashing the pram, removing all memory, using a apple 600i cdrom and
rearranging the HD's, even tried a different scsi card.
Currently situation:
I have removed all extra memory and both the HD's. I still can only boot
form a floppy.
My questions:
The hds I have are an quantum viking 68 pin 4 gig and a wd enterprise 4 gig
also 68 pin - Using a different scsi controller, I have set the term power
on and the term enable on for each drive.
1. With the wd drive all alone on the bus, with the wide negotation turn
off, I am able to get disk tools to see it but it will not initialize it,
says it is "not supoprted". Can this be true?
2. With the quantum drive alone on th bus I can never get the bus scan
to complete. All I get is the spinning circle, even after 10 minutes of
waiting. What am I doing wrong?
3. What can I do to get my system to boot from a cd?
Please help. I really would like to keep my system running but I am worried
I will have to sell of the parts if I can not get it going again.
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