New drive problem |
April, 23, 2003 2:01 PM |
dsabath |
I just got a warranty replacement 36 Gb drive for my PM7500 from OWC. I had one previously running Jaguar fine until it died. While waiting for my replacement, I installed a 9 Gb drive for MacOS X and a 4 Gb drive for MacOS 9. When my new drive arrived, I used Carbon Copy Cloner to copy the 4 Gb drive to an external firewire drive. I then removed the 4 Gb drive, put in the 36 Gb drive, and booted into MacOS X from the 9 Gb drive. Next, I used the MacOS X Drive Utility to erase the 36 Gb drive (FWIW, the install MacOS 9 drivers option was grayed out), and I used Carbon Copy Cloner to copy the MacOS X installation to the big drive. Finally, I selected the big drive as the startup disk and went to restart. At this point, the computer would not boot--I would get a gray screen with the cursor arrow, which did not move in response to mouse movement. I also could not boot from a MacOS 9 CD when holding the C key down. The only way I could boot was to unhook the 36 Gb drive. I tried changing the SCSI ID, swapping its location on the SCSI chain (it came with termination enabled and had been on the end of the cable; I disabled termination and put it mid-cable), zapping the PRAM, pushing the CUDA button, but no effect. I doubt the drive is defective, since it worked out of the box. I can't think of anything new to try, so please provide suggestions if you have any! Thanks, Dan |
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RE: New drive problem |
April, 24, 2003 12:35 AM |
dsabath |
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Never mind. My problem was I had the SCSI cable plugged in and then plugged in the power cable after booting. This caused immediate shutdown. In constrast, when I plugged in the power cable before the SCSI cable, I was able to (finally!) mount the drive in MacOS 9. Thanks for the help. Dan |
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RE: New drive problem |
April, 23, 2003 10:08 PM |
dsabath |
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OK, I tried this. With a normal (50-pin) SCSI drive, I was able to boot from the CD or another MacOS 9 drive, plug in the 50-pin drive, and mount it with Drive Setup. However, when I tried the same thing with my OWC 36 Gb drive (80-pin with 50-pin adapter), as soon as I plugged in the drive, the computer shut down instantly. This happened even when booted from the CD and no other drives present. Does this indicate a hardware or human problem? If you want to email me, my address is dsabath at fastmail.fm. Thanks, Dan |
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RE: New drive problem |
April, 23, 2003 6:08 PM |
fixitjc |
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remove all drives except the problem and the CD drive - unplug the power cable from the problem drive and boot the system with the 9 CD, launch Drive setup, plug in the drive and rescan the bus then reformat it with the 9 utility. This has worked for me with other "problem" drives. Jim |
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RE: New drive problem |
April, 23, 2003 5:29 PM |
tempest |
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Does this drive have a native 50-pin SCSI connector or did you need to use an adapter. You can always try removing all your hds except your 36GB and try to boot into OS 9 via CD. Have just your CD-ROM and 36GB drive. Put the drive back at the end of the physical SCSI chain and enable its termination. What model drive is it? LVD? |
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RE: New drive problem |
April, 23, 2003 3:46 PM |
dsabath |
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That's kind of what I thought. The problem is, I can't boot (even into MacOS 9) with the drive hooked up. What can I do? |
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RE: New drive problem |
April, 23, 2003 2:18 PM |
marcush |
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You have to format the drive with OS9's drive setup. Otherwise, it will never boot. |
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