Barry Gamble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 06:15:01 -0700
Wrote:
A friend's ATA66 type of primary hard drive on his S900 failed to
boot and instead booted from the original 2 Gig SCII drive. After
trying quite a few things to get the primary ATA66 drive to boot, or
at least found/recognized, I suggested he bring over his hard drive
to my place and plug it into my S900 ATA66 PCI card and see if it
will boot on my machine so we could copy some important files off the
drive. No luck. It would not boot from mine either. Then
disconnected his primary HD from my S900 and reconnected up my hard
drive to my ATA66 card and sadly now my S900 stopped booting at the
happy MAC face. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Reinstalling
an old internal SCII HD drive that had been working fine will not
boot either. Also, can't seem to get it to boot from CD on either of
two CD drives (Ata66 or internal SCII) drive either but that's not
too unusual. Holding down C key or trying command-option-shift-
delete never did work right and for years had been only able to boot
from a CD by using the Startup Disk Control Panel. My S900 has a
700MHz G4 upgrade card lots of RAM and a 9 month old ATI video card
so I could upgrade to O/S X but
have never made the transition. Stuck on Happy Face. Suggestions
appreciated.
Barry Gamble
Hi Barry;
I have had similar problems with what I thought were "Typhoid Mary"
drives that seemed to corrupt all systems they were connected to.
In many cases, for some unknown reason, they seemed to cause the
System Files of the Boot drives to be "Un-Blessed".
Several of these "No-Good" drives were found to have severely
corrupted Directories. These were fixed with DiskWarrior. Others were
found by Apple Drive Set-Up 2.0.3 and Initialized with that tool.
One drive I just got from R.A. was in that condition but it is now working OK.
I just had a situation that is not totally resolved as yet(I think it
is a shorted SCSI home made Ribbon cable in my ATX external Box)
that involved my main CDRom drive failure concurrent with the
installation of the "Typhoid Mary" in my external SCSI box. I finally
removed the CD Drive and disconnected the External SCSI Box and the
main box booted just fine. The suspect SCSI drive was found to need
Initialization after it was installed in an open bay in the main
S-900.
I have found Disk Warrior, Norton's, and Apple Drive Set-Up 2.0.3 to
be indispensable. As well as some sort of External SCSI Box. For ATA
drives "Y" power splitters and a second Ribbon cable from the ATA
CARD with the case open is convenient.
I have not a clue as to how these drives do the corrupting or
Un-Blessing but Fixing the directories and Re-Blessing the System
Files worked for me.
Did you press the CUDA switch and ZAP the pram when you reinstalled
the old drive?
Stick to it,
Ernie
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