I took out the good drive, found a label that illustrated how to set the jumpers for slave, master, etc., so I changed it to Master. I reinstalled it, started up with Disk Warrior and, behold, it came up as a master. I ran a diagnostic on it and it was fine.
Now, I still have all of the exact same problems as before. I reset the PRAM and NVRAM again per instructions on the Apple support pages. I double-checked the Software Install and Tiger disks on another computer to make sure they were OK (they were). I took Mike's suggestion and did an option-startup. A blue screen came up with a 270-degree arrow in one box on the left and a straight arrow in a box on the right side. When I clicked on the left one, it appeared to make the optical drive run. The other button did nothing. Only when I inserted the DW CD did a disk icon come up (in the middle) and it was called "utility disk". Now, I'm thinking, I am stuck with the "expensive option." I have an external firewire drive that I use for backups. I can't find a way to make it a bootable drive without cloning it (and losing my other data) via SuperDuper!, for example. I looked all over the Apple discussion boards, versiontracker, etc. This is a real puzzle. R On 7/12/05 5:15 PM, "macgroup-digest" <owner-macgroup-digest at erdos.math.louisville.edu> emailed: > There is probably a jumper on the drive itself that has to be changed > from the slave to the master position. The system won't work right > with a slave drive and no master drive on the IDE ribbon. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be July 26. 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>
