No, I didn't bother. I can tell when it's booting from CD because the CD's activity LED lights (and you can hear it). So I know it's booting from CD like it should.> HD and CD both. I've got various operating systems installed on > various physical disks, and I've tried booting from CD (thinking that > somehow my OS 9 installation was the problem). > > When booting from CD in 8.x, I have no problem. When booting from CD > in 9.x (9.0, 9.1, 9.2, etc), the boot process halts at the happy Mac. > Same symptoms when booting from HD. > > Curiously, the Radeon works fine in my Mach5 9600 with 9.1. > > Peace, > Drew
When booting from CDs I have found it helpful - wherever possible - to set the CD as startup disk in the Startup control panel, perhaps you did this...
David Elmo
I sent an email to Sonnet and to ATI. ATI helpfully suggested that I check Extensions Manager to make sure that I've got no conflicting extensions, to delete certain prefs files, etc. They neatly ignored my clear statement that OS 9 cannot boot - no way no how - when the Tempo Trio and Radeon 9200 are both installed.
Sonnet's tech support was much more helpful and got to the root of the problem. Although they couldn't say for certain that there's a problem when both the Trio and 9200 are installed, they did say that some PCI cards on Old World Macs cause OpenFirmware to die at boot because of a memory leak in OF. They claim that OF on Old World Macs has a bug that causes crashes when certain PCI cards load their OF variables at boot. In particular, they said that some PCI cards use a compression/decompression scheme to store their variables, and that when loaded into OF at boot, the OF memory leak causes the host Mac to crash. When just one such card is installed, it's not a problem. But when two or more cards are installed, it does cause problems as OF runs out of memory. That's why you can't use more than one Tempo Trio or Tempo ATA card in an Old World Mac.
Interesting info. I've replied to ATI with a "Bull$#i7!" type response. Of course, I was more polite in my response than that. Their reply to my original request was clearly not read. Great tech support there.
Anyway, the Sonnet tech said he runs a Tempo Trio and original Radeon on his beige G3 without too much trouble (though he had to move some cards around).
Is there anyone else here with a Tempo or Tempo Trio card and a relatively modern ATI card that works in OS X? I'd really really really like to get 10.3 on my beige G3, and the internal video doesn't work (apparently). So I need an ATI card, and I'm not willing to ditch my
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