Michael, Make sure you are using the original CDROM that the S900 came with and check the SCSI settings of the CDROM drive. When attempting to boot off the CD try doing it with no other SCSI devices other than the CDROM connected.
On Sunday, March 2, 2003, at 11:46 PM, Michael Kaszuba wrote: > 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. > > > > > -- > SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... > > Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished > Drives | > Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! > | > > Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > > SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> > --> 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]> > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- >> The Think Different Store > http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> 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]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
