What I meant was that I terminated the CD-ROM rather than the original boot HD and reassigned ID numbers.
Is the CD-ROM drive at the physical end of the SCSI cable? That is, it must be plugged into the last connector on the SCSI cable, furthest from the motherboard. The motherboard should be plugged into the connector at the other end of the cable. Thus, termination is supplied at both ends of the cable.
I still don't know if the original WD Enterprise is salvageable. From all indications it was DOA, but I thought the CD-ROM was DOA, too until I slipped it into an operation PM 5500 and it ran fine (upon dropping in a FWB CD-ROM Toolkit extension).
That is strange but suggests that something is up with the cabling in the S900. Especially if you're using the stock cable in the S900. That's a very long cable and longer cables are more sensitive to termination issues.
I do have two questions that maybe you guys could answer: 1) Why does the Sonnet Upgrade extension create a conflict and what does it do?
Because Sonnet has never been very good at compatibility going all the way back to their 040 upgrades that didn't work with virtual memory, whereas Daystar's did.
I don't know, but it is possible that the extension enables the cache. If you operate your G3 without the cache it will run, but you lose a huge portion of the performance.
The computer seems to run fine without it. (The Apple System Profiler says its running at 445 - 450 MHz - this is a G3 400 PCI upgrade.).
ASP is often poor at reporting speed. Try to find a copy of NewerTech's Clockometer or their GaugePro which integrates the funtionality of Clockometer with other utilities.
2) When I boot up the computer I generally have to turn it on
("chime") and after a minute or so, hit the restart button. It boots every
time if I follow this ritual.
How much memory do you have? You may not be waiting long enough if it's more than about 512 MB. If it doesn't matter how long you wait and it still won't finish booting, then you have a faulty memory module, almost certainly.
A third question (and completely unrelated to the J-700. . .) is have either of you guys had problems or heard of problems with USB/Firewire combination cards in a C-500. Specifically the problem is with OS 9.1. With 9.0 we had no problems, but when we upgraded to 9.1, it's been crash city.
I don't know if this is your problem, because I'm not very familiar with the C series, but my understanding is that the ROM in the C series has a flaw for operation with cards that have a PCI-PCI Bridge. Combo cards like the USB/Firewire combine functions by using a PCI-PCI Bridge.
Unlike the problem with the S/.J series, Apple acknowledged this problem and provided some kind of patch. Is it possible that you lost the patch (probably an extension) when you switched to OS 9.1.
I may be completely off track on this latter issue, though.
Jeff Walther
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