Hello, I just joined this list. I have successfully used Mac OS X 10.1-3 on my stock 604e CPU 8600/200 for a while via UUX/XPF and just recently I got the XLR8 G4 450 upgrade.
Mac OS X seems to be picky about which drives it likes: I bought a 50-pin 7200 rpm Seagate (4.55G Seagate Medalist Pro ST34520N). The drive was slow (3MB/s @ internal SCSI) with Drive Setup 2.0.3 as well as Intech Hard Disk SpeedTools 3.5. Hard Disk SpeedTools 1.5.7 was OK with 8-9MB/s but that drive wasn't X-bootable (the Mac's screen stayed black upon boot>. OK, I can boot into X from either 18G IBM Ultrastar 18ES DNES-318350 @ internal SCSI or 75GB IBM Deskstar 75GXP DTLA-307075 @ Sonnet Tempo ATA100. The trouble is that I experienced new random crashes during booting into Mac OS X no matter which driver was installed when the new Seagate ST34520N was attached to the SCSI chain, and it was not even the boot drive. The crashes were random and eventually I took the ST34520N out and replaced it with the old stock Seagate ST32151N and it seems that the crashes have stopped. The ST34520N should have been properly configured but I think there was still something that Mac OS X didn't like about that particular drive. -- Matti Haveri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/> -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> 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/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
