Hi Steve, I have a 7300, PowerLogix G3/350, 600mb RAM, Sonnet ATA 100, Maxtor 15 gig HD partitioned in half. OS 9.1 in second partition and OS X 10.1.3 and 9.1 in the second.
When I installed X I did it in september with OS X 10.1 and Unspported Utility X 2.0 It went without a hitch. I resently tried to put OS X on another 7300 and it never took. There were two big differences. The second 7300 has a Sonnet G3 card and a SCSI HD. I had more luck with Unspported Utility X 2.0 than with the Sonnet OS X software, but it still failed. When I get a ATA card in it I will try again. The problem seemed to revolve around the SCSI drive acordind to the messages produced. You might try the older Unspported Utility X 2.0...If you can't get it I can send it to you. *************************************************************************** Steve Seiden wrote: > >Hello Listers, I'm trying to install OSX version 10.1 on my Umax S900 >and have failed over and over. I can't seem to figure what I'm doing >wrong. I'll try to give as much detail as I can...I am presently > >The message above started a pretty good thread that has died without answers for me. >SCSI termination sounded like one probable conclusion, but I did not hear if Phillip >ever found his problem and what it was. I felt as if many were not hearing what I >heard, which was that using XPostFacto Phillip was never able to get the OS X >installer to load on his hard drive, period. I empathize, as I too cannot get >XPostFacto to load on my PowerMac 7300. Should be able to. Many answers mis-id'ed the >problems as being unable to boot in OS X, when in fact he never got it loaded in >order to try to boot. Am I right here Phillip? > >I have a $200+ PowerMac 7300 (eBay) running OS 9.1 which I have upgraded over 8 >months with an XLR8 ZIFCarrier and Newer G4/400/1MB, new RAM to 896MB, an ACARD ATA >100/133, two Maxtor 7200 EIDE HDs (40GB master and 20GB slave), a TDK ATAPI 24/10/40x >VeloCD, and added VRAM to 4MB. I have no PCI video cards. To install the ATA HDs and >an ATAPI CD burner, I have removed all internal SCSI, both the original Apple 4GB (I >think) SCSI HD and CD-ROM. I have encountered no problems running 9.1. > >But, using XPostFacto, I cannot get OS X to install. Using the ATAPI TDK, I got a >broken folder. The TDK had not been bootable with OS 9 CDs, but had played well as a >straight CD-ROM with both digital and audio CDs, and burns with Toast 4/5 lite. I had >first suspected the OS 9 CDs with the TDK, but now believe the bootability is a drive >issue. So I have reinstalled the SCSI CD-ROM. It is bootable with OS 9 CDs. With >XPostFacto, it then gives me a happy face and a perpetual rainbow cursor, rotating, >but frozen in the upper left corner. Brittany suggested using verbose mode, which I >have tried and it freezes at the same point each time (I don't have the verbose data >here). > >Following Dan Knight's UnSupported list, I believe I may have created an internal >SCSI bus termination problem for myself by removing the SCSI HD and CD, which perhaps >XPostFacto cannot handle. Reading this thread makes me believe that I could install >OS X after putting the SCSI HD back in, but I don't want to go there. Before I bought >the 40GB, I ran the 20GB ATA with the 4GB SCSI HD. The ATA was obviously much faster, >so I moved OS 9.1 to the ATA and made it the boot and primary drive, and semi-retired >the SCSI in its installed location, waiting for another good deal on large capacity >ATA, recently completed. > >SOoo I have a quandry!! I think it is a waste to use a drive bay and a 4GB SCSI HD >purely as a termination block. I want a full ATA 7300 with OS X running, with my 60 >GB fast ATA capacity, and my ATAPI burner running in my final configuration. But I >know nothing about internal SCSI termination. What it the proper way? Is there a >low-cost internal termination block similar to external SCSI termination blocks, that >can be permanently installed at the end of the SCSI ribbon cable? Where can I get >such, and what specific part am I looking for? Or can the SCSI ribbon be detached >from the motherboard after the SCSI CD is no longer required, resulting in no need >for a terminal block? Or perhaps I have another problem here to chase after the SCSI >is properly terminated. > >Thanks in advance!! > >Steve Seiden > -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> 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/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
