Does Sonnet Crescendo 800/G4 kill X Post Facto? |
August, 26, 2003 4:08 PM |
mwann |
I have been trying to install X on a 4G SCSI drive on my PTPro with Sonnet Crescendo 800/G4. The install will start and run for a while but I will eventually gt a message that the process vould not be completed because an "unexpected fatal error occurred", and the machine will shut down and reboot. At the same time I was also having problems getting the X Post Facto panel to open. This happened on 2 diferent versions....2.2.3 and 2.2.5. I have a RADEON 7000 card and the drives were formatted with Apple utilities.....one partition (1.5 G ) has 9.2 installed and the X partition is 2.5 G. I ran Disk Warrior on the drive and it says OK. Does Sonnet have a killer applet to stop X Post Facto so you will buy their INSTALL X? |
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RE: Does Sonnet Crescendo 800/G4 kill X Post Facto |
August, 26, 2003 7:17 PM |
mwann |
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marcush thanks....have back and forthed with you some over at MacGurus, I think......back in the XLR8 450/SSE non-interleaving RAM days...I think you wre one of the first to order the 800 Sonnet as I recall. You may have covered this problem back then, now that I think about it. Anyway.....your possible solution sounds good and I'll try it a little later on when I get to the machine. mike |
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RE: Does Sonnet Crescendo 800/G4 kill X Post Facto |
August, 26, 2003 4:39 PM |
marcush |
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No, it works with the card. I have a PTPro with Sonnet G4/800 also. I have seen the problem you are describing with XpostFacto in OS 9.2.2 but that was before I re-ran OS9Helper to patch the firwire extensions. Are both your CD drive and target drive connected to the external SCSI bus connector on the logic board? If not then that is most likely your problem. The first couple of times I installed OSX 10.1 when it came out I had a couple of failures like yours. I then did a little experimenting and found that with SCSI I had to connect everything to the slower SCSI bus to get the install to work. Afterwards you can reconnect your boot drive to the FAST SCSI bus. Try that and see if it makes a difference. Another thing to consider is your RAM. Is it all rated at the same speed? 60ns or 70ns? If it is mixed that is a problem. If it is 70ns that can be a problem too. |
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