PM7500 questions regarding Tempo ATA 100 card |
August, 18, 2002 2:26 PM |
dohc76 |
I have a 7500 with a Tempo 100 card with a Maxtor 40GB drive. How do I need to partition the drive to install OS X? It is partioned into 3 equal partitions at the moment. When I try to install I get all the way to the OS X installer select destination dialog but all three partitions are greyed out. What do I need to do? The Tempo card has the latest firmware and the drive was set up with Apple's Drive Setup software. I also have a USB card and a combo FW/USB card installed. I hope to take out the USB card and put in a Radeon 7000 card. Do I need to refomat the drive with a smaller than 8GB partition as the first partition? I have read through several months of postings looking for clues but it is unclear as to what I should do. Thanks for all suggestions in advance. |
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RE: PM7500 questions regarding Tempo ATA 100 card |
August, 21, 2002 9:47 AM |
matti.haveri |
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I have a 75G Deskstar @ Sonnet Tempo ATA100. I have two 4096 MB partitions and the third for the rest of the HD space. I can install X on the two smaller partitions (inside the first 8G of the disk) but not on the large partition. Mac OS 9 sees the drive as SCSI but AFAIK X sees it as IDE. |
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RE: PM7500 questions regarding Tempo ATA 100 card |
August, 19, 2002 6:29 PM |
tebjlc |
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This worked for me on my 9500 w/ Tempo ATA 100: First,you need: 1. an HFS+ formatted external SCSI drive with OS 9.1 installed on it connected to your external SCSI port (probably at least 3-5 gigs free space,although less might work down to the 1.5 gigs the install demands) 2. An ATA drive formatted in HFS+ partitioned so that the partition you plan to install OSX to is less than 8 gigabytes,and with OS 9.1 installed on the drive. 1.Open XPF. 2.Target the External SCSI drive as the drive to install to. 3.Run XPF; if all goes well BootX will run,and the OSX Installer will open. 4.When asked which disk to install to,your Tempo ATA - connected less -than 8gig partiton will (may ?) present itself as an install candidate.(?) 5.Select your ATA drive as tthe drive to install OS X to,and proceed with installation; it might work (it did for me...) The downside to this is that every time I've done an OSX upgrade the external SCSI drive has to be attached. I make no claim that this will work for anyone else, but it for me..I have no idea why,and it did take a couple of tries.. I used XPFb15.... |
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RE: PM7500 questions regarding Tempo ATA 100 card |
August, 18, 2002 6:37 PM |
dohc76 |
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Thanks for the replies. I guess I have to reformat. |
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RE: PM7500 questions regarding Tempo ATA 100 card |
August, 18, 2002 5:30 PM |
blel |
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I believe the 8 gig limit refers only direct connect ATA drives, but the Tempo card emulates a scsi drive that does not have a limit. I use the AHARD Raid ATA card on a 7500 without any problem on a 30g ATA drive. Apple Profiler will tell you if the drive is pretending to be a SCSI drive. If it is, you do not need to partition the drive. |
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RE: PM7500 questions regarding Tempo ATA 100 card |
August, 18, 2002 3:51 PM |
mjoecups358 |
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The partition you install OSX to must reside ENTIRELY in the first eight gig of drive space.... So yes, you need to partition it, and the first partition must be smaller then 8 gig. Good Luck. |
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RE: PM7500 questions regarding Tempo ATA 100 card |
August, 18, 2002 3:50 PM |
developer |
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The first partition (on which OS X will reside) MUST be less then 8 GB. |
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