Starting with a 7300 What would you do? |
November, 03, 2002 7:31 AM |
cschmidt |
Hi Folks. I currently have a PM 7300 running a Crescendo G4-400 card, Apple CD-Rom, Quantum Atlas V 18.3 Gig SCSI Drive, and 512 MB Ram all Kingston 64 MB chips. On board Video with 4MB Vram, and a Belkin 2 port USB card. This machine was GIVEN to me and the only thing I have added to it has been the USB card. When I go try to do the install for 10.2 I have a second drive I swap out so I can go back to the original system and not mess up my Son's college work. So....What would you folks recommend for me to do with this machine? I am willing to buy a new CDrom so I can upgrade to CD/RW, I am also willing to buy something like the Sonnet Tempo HD or go with the Tempo Trio. I just want in the worst way to run this machine on 10.2.....This is the 2nd Machine that two of us have tried to get OS X on. I keep thinking that something is wrong with the CD Rom's and I don't have a spare one of those new enough to work. Chris |
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RE: Starting with a 7300 What would you do? |
November, 03, 2002 9:21 PM |
marcush |
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I'm not really familiar with the 7300 but if it has two SCSI bus connectors on the logic board then the reason for you install failures may be that it is connected to the Fast SCSI bus. Connect your ribon cable to the external bus connector and it may resolve your problem. I ran into this when I first tried to install 10.1 on my Power Tower Pro. It took me a few hours to realize what the problem was but once I did the installation proceeded without incident. |
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RE: Starting with a 7300 What would you do? |
November, 03, 2002 10:15 AM |
earlyd416 |
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Chris, Tell us about your hard drive? Is it on the built-in internal SCSI? Did replace or add to the 1GB drive that usually came with the Mac? Usually, on the older Macs, the last unit in the built-in internal SCSI chain was jumpered to terminate the chain. But, since you've the Atlas, I presume it required Active Termination or didn't have on drive termination capability, and, thus, the need for the black terminator. So, make sure the last device on the chain is jumpered for termination. (What's also in your PCI slots? ...besides the Belkin USB card.) --Dwight P.S. Be advised that 10.2 will run slowly. I have an 8600 with a Powerlogix G4/450 and an ATI Radeon card. I also have an ATTO UL2D SCSI PCI card with two (2) older Atlas III 18GB drives - one for 9.1 app's and the other for 10.1.5. I've got a Seagate 9GB which I use for my test drive and is on the internal built-in SCSI buss. I have it partitioned 1G for Classic 9.1 and 8GB for 10.2 |
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RE: Starting with a 7300 What would you do? |
November, 03, 2002 9:45 AM |
cschmidt |
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I am using the Apple HD Utilities on both HD's and they work GREAT on OS 9.1 that I've been using. The problem I'm having with the CD-Rom (tried 2 so far) is I get a Patched IOSCSICDDRIVE failure and then soon after that I get the waiting for boot device error and then nothing. ONE QUESTION I do have. On the PM7300, did they have a terminator (black) at the end of the SCSI chain internally? I think I may have removed these a number of years ago to install internal Jazz Drives.....I am such a fool! Chris |
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RE: Starting with a 7300 What would you do? |
November, 03, 2002 9:00 AM |
fuzzball |
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One basic but often forgotten rule. Are you running 9.1? 8.6 won't do. Also what driver utility are you using to format the Quantum? Apple HD or Hard Disk Speed Tools works for X but not sure about others. |
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RE: Starting with a 7300 What would you do? |
November, 03, 2002 8:39 AM |
timjudym |
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Personally i would stay away from an ATA card and HD as this will take up a PCI slot and you need all that you have. You did not say what problems you are having trying to run osX, but the apple cd-rom should not be one of them. |