I recently installed an Acard Ahard 66 ATA/PCI card into my power tower pro. at the same time I installed a western digital 120 GB hard drive. I formatted it with FWB hard disk tool kit, version 4.5 I partitioned it and its working fine. the only problem I am having is I cant use it for a start up disk. I read on here to make the first partition smaller than 8 GB for the start up drive. the first partition is 7.8 GB. the next partition is 80 GB , and the last is the remainder of the drive.
I installed system software( OS 9.1) on the first partition and tried restarting from it. it shows a smiling mac. then I get this message "this startup disk will not work on this mac. Use the latest installer to update this disk for this model" a little "restart" box is on the screen and all you can is insert a CD to start up from and hit restart. When I installed the drive I left the jumper settings on the original default (Cable Select) setting. I check the western digital support page and the manual that came with the drive. it said if its the only device on the cable to use the "single" setting. so I switched the jumper on the drive and restarted the computer again. same message "this startup disk will not work on this mac. Use the latest installer to update this disk for this model" I am not sure what to try next. I am thinking it has something to do with the FWB drivers? anyone have any ideas what to try next? is it possible to use the apple drive set up on a power computing machine? I want to use the IDE drive to install OS X on. but I read on the XPostFacto pages that you have to use apple drive set up, or Intech's Hard Disk Speed tool, for XPostFacto to work . the machine is a power tower pro with a sonnet G3 @ 500 mhz, 640 mb ram currently I have 4 partitions on 2 SCSI drives with OS 8.6 , OS 9.1 and OS 9.2.2 . I just installed 9.2.2 last night, so far so good. seems very stable. thanks John -- Power Computing is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Power Computing list info: <http://lowendmac.com/power/list.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powercomputing%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
