Well I guess I panicked in my earlier post. I reinitialized the drive that
was not being recognized and it was mounted as a result of the
initialization process.
If you ever happen to look at a macintosh formatted HD's partition map at a low level, you will see multiple small partitions which contain the driver software for that device. When the apple installer 'updates drivers' on the device in question, it modifies these bits of code. When you reinitialized the drive (I'm assuming with Drive Setup), the os rewrites these bits of code at the beginning of the device. Bootable CD's work the same way - they have a driver descriptor map burned into the CD, which the MacOS ROM utilizes to 'drive' the CD - regardless of what is in your extension folder. This may have been the problem with your failed OS install attempts - either the driver on the CD, or multiple conflicting drivers in your extn folder. Some people have reported problems installing OS 9 because of dirty/scratched CD's. Apparently the installer will fail why trying to open one of the larger archives. Happily, it all works now ;)
tom
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