As we've added more and more to our StarMax, the original 2.4g hard drive has become more and more stuffed. Norton's Disk Doctor just shakes his head and days there's nothing he can do. So, I've bought a 30g internal drive from OWC.
The handiest thing would be to add it to the Max, at least temporarily while I transfer applications and files from the old drive to the new. I haven't taken the case off yet, but I'm not sure that I have enough IDE connections to support two hard drives and the two cd drives which are installed.
I'm hoping that my fellow listers might point me to an article or two which address my upcoming project, or might give me a pointer to two to help me onwards.
Lastly, I'd like to upgrade from 9.0 to 9.1. Anybody know where a 9.1 upgrade lurks these days?
With a HD and 2 CDs, one of the CDs must be on the SCSI chain. The SM machines only support 1 device per IDE channel, so you have to swap pieces in and out. You should be able to use the following to copy everything to the new HD. Obviously, make all the hardware changes with the power off.
1) Remove the CD connected to the internal IDE channel and temporarily plug the new HD in.
2) Boot, format the HD as you want to use it (If you want to partition it, do it at this step.)
3) Insert an OS CD into the CD still connected, use the startup disk control panel to select it and reboot.
4) Assuming you booted from the CD, copy the old HD to the new HD. Shutdown.
5) Remove the old HD, permanently mount the new HD, using an ATA-66 cable (40 pin 80 conductor. Reconnect to the IDE CD.
6) Power up and the system _should_ look for and boot off the new HD. Select the new HD as the startup disk.
7) If it doesn't boot, try rebooting holding down the 'C' key with a OS CD one of your drives that is bootable. Select the new HD as the startup disk and reboot.
Before you start you might want to determine which drive is on the SCSI chain and confirm you can boot from it. The OS 9.x to 9.1 update is still available for download from Apple <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75103>.
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