on 5/14/04 8:15 AM, Paul Corsa at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just a thought. Are the IDE cables and slave/master settings done > correctly on both your IDE HD and IDE CD? This could affect the HD's > ability to boot. Paul C > > Barry Gamble wrote: > >> Thank you all for the great suggestions. The ATA133 Tempo card and hard >> drive are now up and running, a step in the direction of installing OS X. >> Application startup zips along. >> >> Command Option P & R got me into a dark hole, no display on monitor. >> Getting the new firmware for the Tempo may have been the solution, but it is >> hard to know for certain. >> >> Even now that it is working, if I leave the old SCII drives connected, no >> amount of blessing, or selecting startup device will allow a boot to the new >> ATA drive. Only totally disconnecting the SCII drives will allow a boot to >> the ATA drive -- weird, but not important, the SCII drives are out. >> >> I also got a new Lite-ON IDE CD RW. I wanted to leave in the old internal >> SCII CD to make copying easier but that maybe asking too much. With CD >> Toolkit 4.01 extensions active I only can load a disk from the old SCII CD. >> With Apple's CD extensions active I can only load a disk from the new IDE >> drive. Any ideas here? >> >> Thanks again. Barry
Barry, a couple of things here to note. I've come into this thread a bit late, so correct me if I'm mixing your situation up with another. The Tempo ATA 133 has the issue of only being able to boot if the system partition is on the first 8GB of the drive <UNLESS> there is no SCSI boot drive. attached I found this out quite by accident. I'd heard about the "first 8GB" issue on this list, but thought it only related the the OSX partition, so I partitioned my 80GB Seagate so that OSX Jaguar was on the first 8GB partition, OS 9 classic was on the next 2GB partion, and the rest was for apps/media. I found that I was unable to ever boot from the OS 9 classic partition (tried all kinds of things) until one day, while messing around, I pulled my main SCSI boot drive ... voila, I could boot from the ATA OS 9 classic partition. As far as your CD drivers are concerned, your best bet is to use one of the "hacked" Apple CD/DVD drivers that are floating around. This should let you use both the Lite-On and the original SCSI CD-ROM. Let me know if you want it and I can e-mail you the hacked CD driver. -- Gregg -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> 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]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
