By chance at some point was any of the open firmware stuff added to the desktop machine?
For example: http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/ openfirmwarepassword.html Things like this can keep the 20 GB drive from showing up because it has an OS on it and the 40 GB does not. Jerry On Aug 20, 2005, at 3:46 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote: > I have a 400 MHz PowerPC G4 desktop machine running system 10.3.9. It > has the original 20 GB hard drive and a second 40 GB hard drive > added to > the machine sometime after I bought the machine. > > The 20 GB drive is divided into 3 partitions with OS X on one, OS > 9.X on > the second, and the largest partition has OS 9.X. There are no > files or > operating systems on the 40 GB drive. > > My second computer is a 1.67 GHz PowerPC G4 Powerbook. > > I Turned off the desktop machine and connected a firewire cable > between > the desktop and the powerbook. I turned on the desktop machine and > held > down the T key. The 40 GB drive shows up on the Powerbook's desktop > but > the 20 GB drive does not. > > Anyone have any clues as to why one drive shows up and the other > doesn't? > > Thanks. > > Harry > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be August 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > ----------------------------------- Someday, I will come up with a clever signature line. I am not sure if I will use it or not, but I will come up with one. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2373 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050820/7c81d7fb/attachment.bin
