At 11:25 AM -0800 1/16/2012, David W. Morris wrote:
After upgrading one of my G4 PowerBook's to a WD 320gb PATA hard
drive, it will no longer boot using my Tiger Install DVD.
I first thought the hard drive was bad (brand new drive), then I
thought I had made a mistake in taking apart and putting back
together my PowerBook. Eventually I took out the drive and
re-installed my old hard drive and the PowerBook ran fine again.
Normally, the HD would have nothing to do with booting from another
device -- unless it was somehow farking the bus. So by adding the
new device, you have somehow blocked the bootstrap (and probably
other functions) from reaching the other device.
Ok... Perhaps you mixed the modes? If the ide devices in the
powerbook were originally set as master and slave, then you replaced
the master but set the new device to cable select, that would leave
the slave dangling off a cliff. Or vice versa. Either way, the bus
would be a bit irked...
(this is off the top of my head as I don't have the PB docs currently).
- Dan.
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