On Sunday, Oct 6, 2002, at 15:30 Canada/Eastern, (Unsupported OS X) wrote:
> I am having problems getting the OS X 10.2 Install CD to recognize my > reconfigured 8500 w/ G4/450. I had it running fine from an 8 GB SCSI > drive on the internal SCSI bus. I recently installed an ACARD ATA/66 > with a WD 80GB drive and replaced the 8GB drive with an 18 GB SCSI > drive. > > I have OS 9.1 installed on the WD drive, and it boots fine. Using > XPostFacto 2.2.2,he computer boots fine from the 10.2 CD, but hangs > infinitely on the preparing for installation progress bar window. I > with both the 80 GB IDE drive or the 18 GB SCSI drive, and neither > would work. > > My understanding is that the ACARD ATA/66 card, which acts like a > SCSI card, doesn't have the first 8 GB install limit. Besides, it > doesn't even get to that point. I tried zapping the PRAM 5 times, > and all that happened was I lost my Radeon 7000 card. Anyone have any > other advice? I have two questions and a tip: 1) Are one or both your new hard drives formatted by 10.2? If so, then reformat them using 9.1. 2) Is the ROM on the ATA 66 card the current version? If you are not sure then check Sonnet's web page. Tip: Disconnect the SCSI drive, 10.2 has a problem recognizing SCSI drives during the installation process on some machines. I have a 4 GIG. external SCSI for running disk utilities and such and it caused me to hang during the installation till I turned it off and rebooted. Strange thing though, after I had 10.2 installed on one of my drives connected to an ATA 66 Sonnet card, 10.2 would install on the SCSI drive if I told XPostFacto I was installing 10.2 on another ATA drive and picking the SCSI drive from the installer dialog... fun stuff huh? I hope I have helped, John -- 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
