2 of my machines are set up similar to Simon's description. the 8600/G3/500 is set as: 9.2.2 on the stock 6 gig scsi & 10.2.6 on a 60 gig ide (partitioned) connected to an ati/133 card. The other is a beige G3 266 (over clocked to 400) again with multiple drives and the OS's split between the drives. I did notice when I went to 10.2.6 from 10.1.5 a while back, that I lost support for my 3rd party cdrw (on the beige)- a sony 48x24x48. It had worked fine under 10.1.5.& 9.2.2 What I was able to figure out, was that the 10.2.6 install removed the support device file for the sony drive and replaced it with a different file (newer?). I was able to find the proper support file on xlr8yourmac.com and install it - now all is well again. They also have support files and instructions for creating your own support files for the scsi cd drives as well, although you may have to do some searching around on their site first. The 8600 has a internal S&F cdrw that has always worked under any OS. Apparently, any individual drive will require it's own specific device support file - ie, one file for a sony drive doesn't work with every sony drive and the same is true for all cdroms - no universal broad support file unless it's an apple branded drive- at least this is what I can figure out from reading xlr8yourmac.com
Simon, a couple of things I ran into before I was able to have success with OSX on the 8600:
the ati card will require a newer support ext.(firmware?) in order to be able to boot X from a drive attached to it - see the sonnet site.I did this almost a year ago, but if I remember right I had to install the ati card update before I could even boot the OSX cd via xpostfacto. If you have a sonnet processor upgrade, you'll need another ext. for that to work with X also. Another thing is to make sure you have the proper start up disk control panel to be able to boot the X cd - info on xpostfacto site? Both ext.'s are separate from the ones required with 9.x and below. After figuring all this out, the OSX install was a breeze on the 8600 via xpostfacto. However, I had a heck of a time getting Jag to install on the Beige G3. I tried for ever & a day and then gave up for about a month. Then I decided to give the drive in question one more try and after playing jumper pin suicide with the drive for awhile....... viola! it finally would boot the Jag cd. It's a WD 60 gig and several "master" settings exist as well as 2 "neutral" postitions. the second neutral position I tried was the answer. I had tried every setting possible on previous attempts with no luck - the machine wouldn't even boot the CD, it just kept restarting every couple of minutes - go figure it's suppose to be the "supported" of the 2 machines - ha. I also had to pull the above mentioned sony Cdrw and use the G3's 24x apple cdrom for the install process, then reinstall the sony and figure out why it wouldn't work anymore (see above).
Tim, also on the 8600 I have to zap the pram anytime I want to boot 9.2.2 after using X. The only reason I can think of is because of the 2 different sonnet upgrade ext.'s needed for the 2 different OS's. If I try to option key it or select the 9.2.2 drive as the start up drive (while in OS X) it will start to load 9.2.2 and then freeze at the sonnet ext (during the parade). This then requires a force crash (ugg!) and a pram zap to get things going proper. If I zap the pram first, 9.2.2 will boot fine.
Hope something of this babble may be of use for you or help you to figure something out - good luck!
-T-
On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 06:55 PM, Simon wrote:
For some reason since I have upgraded into 10.2.6, I can not boot into OS 9.2.2 or even a CD (tried 9.2.1 and a Jag CD). I have tried many many different ways for the last couple months and nothing has worked yet....
HELP???
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Tim, I too have that problem.
I Upgraded to 10.2.6 on internal 4 GB SCSI drive and have recently got a 6 GB IDE drive that is attached to Sonnet ATA100 PCI card which I wanted to use as OSX boot drive but I cannot boot from JAG CD.
I only run 9.1 on my machine so do not have same problem you are having there.
Any thought from anyone out there? I have tried all combinations of drives plugged in or not, I have even tried changing Master/Slave allocation on various ATA drives I have but nothing seems to allow CD booting from any OSX CD
Regards
Simon Australia
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