Assuming that the drive isn't "fried" and does work, it probably has the
same SCSI id as the one in the new machine, thus causing a conflict. Why
not take a spare ribbon cable(from your old machine) and connect this
drive to the second, slower SCSI plug, located just below the rear fan
on the motherboard? If it is the only device on the ribbon cable id and
termination should not be an issue, it'll show up as being on a
different chain and you can transfer away. Paul C
E Hoffman wrote:
Hi,
I've been setting up my "new" S900 that I purchased from eBay and have been transferring
all the upgrades from my old machine, the one that gave me the "black screen of death",
to the new one. I transferred 1 GB of RAM in pairs resetting the cuda switch each time and powering
up w/ no problems. All the memory is seen. I installed the software for my Sonnet G4/450Mhz
processor card and then the card intself. The Sonnet manual says to press the CUDA switch before
you actuall seat the card. (Is that how it should be done for anything you add?) Installation was
successful although I did lose the chime at first but it returned on restarting. When Sonnet says
not to ZAP the PRAM from a cold start, that means not to Zap it after first powering up, right? But
it's okay to Zap it on a restart? I did and then I got the blinking question mark and had to boot
up from the PRAM restore diskette which the machine kept ejecting but it did the trick anyway and
the next time I powered up, it found the system. (At some point I also got, to my great dismay, a
black screen, but video returned.)
Now, what I want to do is access the data on my original SCSI 2GB that I had in
the old machine. I disconnected it and reconnected it to the the ribbon cable
in the new S900 (immediately after the 2GB SCSI that's already there) and to
one of the other multi-colored cables but when I power up, the added drive does
not appear on the desktop. It's not listed under Apple System Profiler or Drive
Setup as a device connected to the computer. The only place I see it is within
an application I have called SCSI Probe. It's listed there and identified w/ an
ID# of 67 but I can't get it to mount. (The other SCSI drive is listed as
having an ID# of 69.) Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Elliot
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