Hi listers... I just got a Promise ATA / 66 PCI card in the mail from someone on the swap list. I popped it into my 7600 based G3 upgraded machine and booted into OS9.1 via my 1 gig SCSI drive in there. At first the Western Digital 40 gig drive did not show up. SCSI probe showed it was there on a third bus. The Apple System Profiler saw it as a SCSI device.
I ran Drive Setup and it saw the drive as an ATA. I partitioned it with 8 gigs for X, 10 for music, and 20 for working space. I ran XPF 2.2.5, selected the appropriate device, allowed it to load the extensions and restart. Now at this point I walked away as the inital boot process takes a while. When I came back I was greeted by the familiar installer screen from OS 10.2. I went through the read me, etc. When it came time to select a hard disk for install the ATA drive was not even visible let alone greyed out. I ran the Drive Utility, and again, nothing was there on the ATA side of things. My 1 gigger SCSI was there no problem. What can I do about this? I posted a question here asking about the compatibility of these Promise cards and I was told "they work just fine". Am I doing something wrong? I used the latest version of Drive Setup that I had--OS 9.1's. I made sure that the first partition on the drive was 8 gigs, just in case and selected that as my install target. I am going to try the 3.0 beta and see what happens. Please, if any of you have any suggestion, I want to make this work. Scott Strungis -- 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/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
