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>>
>> Eric, This sounds like a RAM issue. How much is installed and is it
>> interleaved?
>> Sorry, I'm not familiar with your setup can you describe it at the
>> time
>> of install ?
>> IDE or SCSI, PCI slots, Processor and video card and so on. it would
>> help.
>>
>> Also, what version of XpostFacto are you using?
>>
>> I personally have not had success with IDE, I installed to SCSI and
>> "cloned to IDE"
>> with Carbon Copy Cloner or Apple Restore. I have a 2.1 & 9.1 IBM SCSI
>> drive to
>> initiate, then I move to my larger IDE drives.
>
> Thanks for your reply. I used the latest version of XpostFacto 2.2.4.
> I have a Sonnet Tempo A66 PCI card to which the IBM 40GB drive is
> attached. It is not a ram issue as the Sonnet G4 Pram restore floppy
> boots with 490 MB of ram OK. If it were ram problems, the floppy
> would not boot the S900. All the ram is the same. Here it is a
> bright and sunny Sunday but a black cloud hangs over my S900.
> Overnight I again pulled all boards, power cords and battery. I did
> the CUDA dance, put everything back and the system is still the same.
> It will boot to the Sonnet G4 pram restore disk. If I have a system
> disk in when I boot with the floppy, the system disk shows on the
> desktop as do all the partitions of the HD. But this is as far as we
> can go as no amount of CUDA pressing or op.-Apple-p,r keys pram
> zapping brings any change in this corpse.
> Eric
Eric, Don't be so quick to say it isn't a RAM issue...
OSX is way fussy about RAM and has given me endless problems with RAM.
I would have thought you'd have seen my posts about this by now.
What I have learned about RAM issues with OSX and my UMAX J700/S900
machine.
CPU speeds over 300mhz will result in having to restart several times
in order to boot if you have any weak or slightly flacky ram. The fact
that it boots and runs fine in OS 9.x will make you think it must be
something other then RAM. I did testing with Gauge Pro and moved the
RAM around to different slots and removed a couple of old 8mb ram chips
that may have been causing the problems. Things seemed fine the next
major problem was when I updated to 10.2.1 . I could boot and start up
once then on the next boot it would hang at some point in the startup.
Running Disk Warrior and Norton Disk Doctor from OS 9.x fond all sorts
of disk corruption etc. I finally bought a new hard drive thinking that
would be the fix. Well no it wasn't. Gauge pro sometimes showed errors
in testing RAM but I couldn't be sure which ram chips it was. This was
driving me nuts. I thought for sure it was new machine time. I decided
to take my RAM to a local ram shop which lucky for me has one of those
expensive testing machines. To my surprise all of my ram was fine but
two chips which weren't labeled turned out to be FPM and I had been
interleaving them with EDO chips and I had one older chip that was 70ns
speed which they suggested I not use as it often causes problems at CPU
speeds over 300mhz. That fixed my problems to my amazement !
If all your ram is the same then likely you can't run it with out
interleaving it...Oh but you can. Just for example if all the slots are
full remove all the A or B slot RAM and just run it with the opposite
slots full. RAM which causes problems when interleaved will often run
ok when not.
I can't say if ram is your issue or not...but it is worth looking into
based on my experience with OSX for over 2 years now since the
development days before the beta. All it takes is one small thing that
can be hard to track down. RAM and the CDROM player have been the
biggest issues with OSX on UMAX machines. In the early days only an
APPLE CDROM player would install OSX. This has changed back and forth
with some versions of OSX installing from most any CDROM player . Best
of luck. Will S
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