I use a 667 MHz G4 DA 1.5 GB SDRAM with OS 10.4. 11 installed. When I bought this machine it had an Adaptec 2906 PCI card in it to which at different times I connected three SCSI external HDs which have 10.2.8, 10.3.9 and 10.4.11 respectively installed. I could read/write to and from each of these three SCSI HDs and with the two internal IDE HDs installed but could not boot from either of these external SCSI HDs. Note: I use the extrernal HDs for archiving and I would also like to be able to boot from them as well
I tried different Adaptec PCI cards but none would allow me to boot from an external SCSI HD connected to the G4 DA. I contacted Adaptec and they informed me that their PCI cards did not support booting from SCSI external HDs in OS X with their PCI cards although I still could boot when using OS 9.1 thorugh 9.2.2. Finally I installed an ATTO Express PCI Pro UL2D in slot-4 and voila I can now boot from an external HD that has OS X installed up though 10.4.11 (I don't know about 10.5.5). I have been informed that the ATTO UL3D PCI card might also work but I have no personal knowledge that it will. Those external HDs had 10.2.8, 10.3.9 and 10.4.11 installed respectively in three different external SCSI HDs. FYI ATTO versus Adaptec; Quantum versus Seagate --- On Thu, 10/23/08, insightinmind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: insightinmind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Permissions Question, CCC 3.1.2 under Tiger & a few more Qs ... To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008, 2:13 PM On Oct 23, 2008, at 3:06 PM, Mel wrote: What do you have connected to your Adaptec AUA-3020A FW/USB2 Duoconnect PCI card? If you are using external HDs, can you boot from those drives? Mel -- I have an OWC Elite (I think that's the model) hard drive enclosure that is both USB2 and FW400, an Oxford 911 bridge type setup. Contains a Seagate 750GB ATA hard drive. Partitioned into Time Machine, Tiger 10.4.11, OS 9.1, APPS and DOCS partitions. CCC did not seem to successfully bless the OS X copy, although the CCC Log says differently ... it did not show up under Startup Disk Items when connected via USB2, but it did show up when connected by FW400. When you look at the partition, no folders had the usual icons for OS X, Applications, etc. Just plain folders. Would not startup under OS 9.1 from the FW drive either. I was hoping it would boot off the card ... but initial tests indicate not. I've read where the PCI Graphics won't boot off a FW off its own channel ... but I was hoping for a different story off a PCI card. Maybe someone knows how to correct this? InTech Speedtools or other might enable it? Bill Connellyartsite: http://mysite.verizon.net/moonstoneartstudiomyspace: http://www.myspace.com/moonstoneartstudio --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
