From: Gary Gorbet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 05:52:07 -0500
My S900 has a SIIG Ultra ATA/133 with a Maxtor 40 gig attached. It's been partition into two equally sized volumes with OS 10.2.6 on both, Classic on the second. It showed up immediately and initialized/partitioned with no problem.
My problem is that I can only boot into X from OS 9 or another X by using XPF 3 and designating a helper disk. When I try XPF 2.2.5 or XPF 3 with no helper, the boot keeps flashing "no bootable HFS partition" and eventually boots back into 9. I've tried the ATA card in both slots 2 and 3. It is currently back in slot 3. I thought that the Acard's had no slot or first-8-gigs issues.
As I say, I am successfully running OS X on this machine. My concern is that I am now dependent on a second drive (a 2 gigger on the internal narrow SCSI) and would be unable to boot should anything happen to that drive. Has anyone out there encountered this issue with ATA cards? I believe my HD is set up as Master and it is attached to the end of the cable.
As far as I know the only ATA PCI card without slot issues in the UMAX S900/J700 is the no longer available new Acard/ Sonnet ATA 66 card. (these cards also don't have the first 8 gb issues. By the way it's slot 1 or 2 with 1 being at the top of the machine. Slot 3 has issues just like 4,5,& 6. So I'm surprised this slot is working with the card at all.
Since your using XPFacto 3 I'm guessing your on the XPFacto forum list as XPFacto isn't available to the public. On this forum several people have talked about running into the first 8 GB issues with their hardware setups using the Acard/ SGII. Shouldn't happen but it has for several people. So I'm going to guess that could be the problem. Reasons why only some people have the issues is unknown at this time. Must be some sort of hardware combo issue.
You say you have two copies of OSX 10.2.6 on the same drive but different partitions some people have found this causes problems on the newer ATA cards. I see you also have classic on the second partition. If you can boot from Classic into OS 9.x you should be able to use it as you helper disk.If you can't boot from classic then something is wrong there. That is how I have things set up.
Perhaps someone else knows more on the subject. Best of luck Will S
PS. using XPFacto 3 it is now possible to boot from OSX utilities to repair drives etc. I've been able to do this with both Disk Warrior 3.0 and Norton System 3 but not 2. It should also be possible to make a custom boot disk using "boot cd" However i guess it's not all that helpful since you would need the helper disk to boot cd's.
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