You have your PCI card numbering reversed. The slot nearest the power
supply is #1, the one farthest away is #6. You are correct that your
video card needs an upper slot. Since you are using a combination
USB/Firewire card it too needs an upper slot. That uses up the two fully
compatable PCI slots. This is because of "bridge chip issues" on the PCI
design, a topic well covered in the SM archives. You didn't mention what
CD driver you use for your Plextor in OS9? The intech or the "mac hack"
both transition to OSX, the FWB(I'm told) does not. I do not believe the
Plextor CD will work properly with Apple drivers-mine didn't. Any CD
will load the OS9 OS, but when you put the OSX disc in the CD and use
XPF to load it the lack of a proper CD driver "rears its head"-I think?
I have a hunch your difficulty is with the CD driver issue. People
forget that the "Clones" needed special drivers for their HD's and CD's
because they were not Apple ROMed. Your Seagate SCSI drives may have
been on the Apple Approved list, thus allowing the Apple drivers to work
with them. Western Digital drives were not, and were supplied with most
of the original S900's.Please let me know What CD driver you have and
maybe I can help solve your problem. Paul C
Robert Kay wrote:
Dear Paul,
Thanks for your interest in my question. Here is a list of the equipment on
my s900:
Radeon 7000 video card, Crescendo G4 processor, Tempo Ultra 66 IDE card,
FireLine combo USB/Firewire card.
The original CD ROM drive has been replaced with a Plextor Ultraplex PX32TSI
CDROM SCSI drive
The hard drives are as follows:
9GB Seagate Medalist Pro ST39140N SCSI drive.
2GB Seagate original equipment SCSI drive.
30GB Maxtor Diamond Plus 8 IDE connected as master drive.
20GB Maxtor 52049H4 IDE connected as master drive.
The OS 9.1 driver is the latest download from Apple.
The OS 9.1 and the OSX target drives are always different drives. I have
tried the OSX installation using only the SCSI drives, only the IDE drives
or a combination of the two types of drives. When necessary the drives have
been partitioned to below 8GB size. The result is always the same. The
programs hang with the OS 9.1 drive showing MacOSX selected as the startup
drive.
The only trouble I have had with the PCI cards is with PDI slot preference.
Although I haven't tried all combinations of slots the following slot
positions have worked well: (slot 6 being nearest the power supply) Fireline
USB slot 4, Tempo IDE 5 and Radeon 6. The position of the Radeon card
appears to be most sensitive and only works well in position 6, if the other
cards are installed. The Fireline USB/Firewire card works in any position,
but requires a powered USB hub when attached to things like a printer, but
doesn't require a powered hyb for an OWC Mercury Elite Pro USB external
drive. The Tempo IDE card does not work well in positions 1 and 2.
Robert Kay
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