What worked for me |
February, 03, 2003 12:18 PM |
xj87 |
I attempted a dozen or so times to install 10.1.5 and 10.2, always failing just before completing installation. I have a 7300/180 with XLR8 G4/350 @ 382 and L2 cache running at 2/3 processor speed. I tried several different things I found in this forum, without success. What finally did work for me was to disable the XLR8 extension before attempting to install (grabbing L2 cache settings first, of course). Once I did that, installation completed without difficulties. I don't know if this is posted somewhere and I didn't see it, or if it's just so obvious to youse 'puter heads that no one bothered to write it, but I wanted to post this in case there's someone else out there it might help. |
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RE: What worked for me |
February, 05, 2003 8:42 PM |
clrlmiller1 |
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I just used X Post Facto 2.2.5 for the first time and everything went smoothly. It is MUCH more stable under OS X.2.3 then 9.1 Current hardware is a PowerTowerPro with a Sonnet G4/350, L2 Cache 1MB running at 3:2 and left the Motherboard Cache also 1MB installed {seems to give it even more boost}. The L2 Cache util also worked like a charm. I found that the PowerLogix software worked better with the Sonnet card then did their own software under OS 9. It also allowed for more tweaking for speed, ie Write back or Write-thru cache, enable Motherboard cache, enable PowerManagement, disable speculative access, etc. I did find that this system is VERY sensitive to SCSI termination and switching more then one jumper was necessary. My hats off to OWC for hosting such awesome software. : ^ ) |
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RE: What worked for me |
February, 05, 2003 8:30 PM |
mcolley |
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I used Sonnet's X installer, and like you, had one failure after another trying to get through the entire installation process. The installer would always quit 2/3 of the way or so through the install ever no matter what I tried. Out of desperation, I opened the options box on the installer and choose the " clean install" options, much like that in OS9 where the old system folder is set aside and replaced by a new one. This worked as far as making it through the install. However, after trying to boot, I got a strange freeze which may have been a kernal panic. I then realized that the new system folder didn't have any of the Sonnet patches in it....so I booted back into OS9, opened the old system folder, then took the contents in the extensions folder (the patch information) and manually installed them into the new system extensions folder. Rebooted and OSX came right up and I haven't had a problem since. |
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RE: What worked for me |
February, 05, 2003 12:25 PM |
earlyd416 |
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One additional note, which was documented in the formum last fall when 10.2 came out, the XLR8 s/w for Mac OS X does not work with 10.2.x. You'll have to use either Powerlogix's Control Cache or Ryan's L2 Cache Config programs. Recommend the latter. --Dwight |
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RE: What worked for me |
February, 05, 2003 12:37 AM |
tpmco |
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Hello guys-- I think the xlr8 extension resides in NVRAM, or at least some parts of it. Maybe xlr8 and xpostfacto are competeing for the NVRAM space and the user is becoming the loser. I had problems with xlr8 in OSX after the initial install of OS X using XPF until I removed xlr8 from OSX and started using L2 CacheConfig instead. The latter worked great. Mark |
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RE: What worked for me |
February, 04, 2003 2:47 PM |
OSXGuru |
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Just to clarify, did you disable the XLR8 extension in Mac OS 9.x? That is what I am assuming, since the Mac OS X version of the XLR8 extension would not be active for the install in any event. If so, it's interesting that disabling the Mac OS 9 XLR8 extension helped. You were clocking your L2 cache quite high, so it's possible that when XPostFacto was copying files, there was some corruption, which then contributed to the later problem. In that case, disabling the extension could help. |
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