hi - so i ordered and successfully installed the SIIG card into my S900 G4/450 with an attached WD 30GB HD. i rebooted and OS-X (jaguar 10.2.8) saw the card and drive no problem. although strange that it sees the card and drive as SCSI (anyone know why?) I reformatted the drive with disk utility and then carbon-copy-cloned my OS-X over to it. Once finished I selected it as startup in the control panel and rebooted.
this is where the problem began. although i chose it in the control panel, it still booted off the old SCSI drive. tried a few times to no avail. then i searched around online a bit and found something about 'blessing' a system folder, which i tried through the terminal, no luck. then i found somewhere that on our machines, you must reformat through OS-9's disk utility program, which i remembered that i did with the scsi in order to load OS-X on the machine (with the help of xpostfacto). so i rebooted on a OS-9.1 CD i had and reformatted the drive. then chose back the SCSI OS-X drive to boot from (so that i could clone again) and rebooted. now it won't boot, it just hangs in the startup and the monitor isn't even receiving a signal. i tried inserting the 9.1 CD and holding C to boot from but doens't work. strange too was that i couldn;t even turn it off, when i tried to power down it would just start back up. so i reset the CUDA switch inside, which at least allowed me to power down but no help in booting up. can anyone help with an idea of what happened? the only thing i can think that i even touched on the original OS-X drive was running disk repair while in 9. was that it? thanks much in advance. christopher ps: the kicker is that i'm sending my pismo in to daystar in a few hours (to upgrade to a g4! ;-) and was relying on my s900 to get me through the weekend. -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
