I have had an interesting day with my 120GB WDCaviar drive in
my Beige G3. I tried OSX and that didn't work at all, and I couldn't
get the partitions to appear if I formatted from the CD. But (after
resorting to the CUDA switch more than once) formating from the old
drive (also a WD Caviar) on the other ATA bus and the dragging of the
OS 9.2.2 system folder to the first partition would allow the machine
to boot up from the 120GB from restart but not from a cold start.
One of the interesting aspects of OSX was that when I
attempted to partition from the Jaguar install disk, my minimum
partition size grew larger as the number of partitions increased.
In fact, the only way I could get a partition smaller than 8GB was to
limit the number of partitions to 2. If I tried to make three
partitions, then the minimum partition size went to around 8.5
(somewhere around there but bigger than 8). There was no such
limitation when formatting from the 9.2 disk or from the 9.2.1 disk
install existing on the prior boot drive.
While meditating on the polemics of auto-euthanization, I
checked out the Western digital website and called for telephone
support. The fellow on the line suggested that maybe the drive
wasn't powering up fast enough and that I might slow down the bios as
it looked for the drive. I don't know about that, but I did switch
the jumper from master to neutral (ie. I removed it totally) and low
and behold everything runs great.
Anyone with a 3rd grade education would have noted that the
original HD was set to neutral, just as the original CD drive was set
to master. The Wall Street Journal reported today that multitasking
people lose intelligence as multitasking goes up. That's my excuse
and I'm sticking to it.
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