I used to have disk issues galore when trying to install OS X on my "unsupported" mac. I tried FWB Disk Tools, DiskWarrior, etc etc. A really simple solution helped me out: Apple Disk Setup. Try doing a zero, low level reformat of your hard drives with Apple's Disk Setup and don't forget to select the "update drivers" option. This usually works
--Bondster!! On Sunday, November 24, 2002, at 11:50 AM, Dennis Moser wrote: > Aaarrrrrggggh! > > I've spent the past two weeks trying to figure this one out. I'm > trying to > prepare my heavily-used 8500 for OS X. First , the environment: > > PPC 8500 w/ PowerLogix Powerforce G3, a PowerPC 750 chip rated at 400 > Mhz, > running at 445 Mhz > Backside cache of 1 Mb running at 160 Mhz (5:2 ratio). This has proven > to > be a stable configuration for the past 3 years. > 592 Mb of RAM,currently running OS 9.2.2, having used Old World Support > 1.0b7 to upgrade the machine from OS 9.1. Two Apple monitors, one > running > off the video card in the bottom-most PCI slot. > Two SCSI drives on internal bus, Seagate ST19171WC of 9 Gb each, with > 80-50 > converters, at IDs 0 & 2, and Driver Version 8.1.4. The boot drive is > on ID > 0. > > Now thegoal: > > I would like to add larger drives, using a PCI controller and have them > internal. This would allow me to install Jaguar onto a separate drive, > test > run it so I can evaluate the performance on this machine (I've too much > legacy hardware/software at this point to move some of my workload to > the > non-SCSI, heavily USB/Firewire world of a brand new machine, so I'm > doing > what a lot f us are, keeping this old iron working). To this end, I > purchased a SIIG UltraSCSI card, SC2471 V 1.0, and two IBM Ultrastar > DPSS-318350N, 18 Gb, 68-pin UltraSCSI drives. And that's where the > problems > begin... > > THE PROBLEM: > > The PCI card has been run in both the top-most and middle PCI slots > with no > apparent difference. At one point in all of this, I ran the Profiler > and it > showed the following: > > PCI SLOT A1: SIIG UltraWide SCSI card, card name: pci10cd,2300 > > ...so I have to assume that the card is working properly. > > Setting the termination on one of the IBM drives appropriately (I > think!), > the drive shows up as SCSI BUS 2, ID-6, IBM DPSS-318350N, Driver > Version > 8.1.4. I THOUGHT I had successfully format and initialized the IBM > drives > with the most recent version of HD Tools that came on my 9.2.2 install > disk. > > Everytime I try to move any files over about 50 Mb, the read/write red > light comes on on the SIGG card, the cursor turns into the clock and > everything stops. Yes, I still have mouse movement, but keyboard input > disappears and the whole thing seems to be hung. I first noticed this > when > I went to try and install an OS onto the IBM drive to see if I would be > able to boot from the PCI-based drive (yes, it SHOULDN'T be problem, > but I > wanted to be sure). The install simply hung and I had to use the > Command-Ctrl-Power abort/reboot to get the machine back. > > Thinking that perhaps, a full reformat would clear up any problems > actually > seemed to make matters worse... I couldn't get HD Tools to see the > drive. > Force reboot, shutdown properly, disconnect the drive, reboot, check > the > Seagates, shutdown, reconnect the IBM drive, reboot. Drive appears in > HD > Tools, but format hangs. Force reboot, shutdown, disconnect, reboot, > shutdown. re-connect, reboot, drive reappears. > > I have a licensed copy of FWB, but I'm concerend about some of the > issues > that have shown up here on the list about using it to format drives > for use > with OS X. I'm running out of ideas of how to approach this and I'm > afrraid > if I keep having to crash and burn, I'm going to frell my Saegates AND > the > IBM drives to the point that I won't have a stable system any longer. > I've > tried to make sure that I haven't done any damage to my file system > onthe > Seagates (I was starting to have some minor problems that were "fixed" > by > the Apple First Aid, but again, I'm trying to err onthe side of caution > here). > > Has anyone seen this before? Any experience with this PCI card? Any > experience with these drives? I really can't simply pop an adapter on > to > the SCSI connector of these IBM drives and swap them over, one for two, > with my Seagates, though that had been my original idea. That's why I > bought the SIIG card, which would actually give me more flexibility > with > making the move over to Jaguar. > > For what it's worth, I have been completely successful with using XPF > to > get OS X 10.1.5 running on a straight stock 7600 with 128 Mb ram, on > two 4 > Gb drives and a 13" Apple RGB monitor. We use it as a web- and > fileserver > (http:angrek.net) and while not blazingly fast, is actually a > comfortable > working environment. So I'm not a complete newbie with this. > > Dennis Moser > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > "That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the > time" > --John Stuart Mill (1806-73) > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > > > -- > 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> > --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; > 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/> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- >> The Think Different Store > http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- 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> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; 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/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
