UltraTek-66 on 8500 boot problems |
March, 04, 2003 5:22 PM |
neemidge |
I'm trying to install Jaguar on an 8500 (512MB, 400/200/1MB PowerLogix G3 (results do not vary between clocking the bus at 50x, 52.5x, or 55x), 40GB WD ATA, a couple of SCSI drives, Sony ATAPI CD-RW). The SCSI drives and CD-RW can essentially be ruled out as contributing -- I've tried the same thing with a SCSI CD-ROM drive and two other SCSI drives. Trying to install to the ATA drive, everything goes well until the reboot out of OS9. Once the screen goes black, it comes back quickly -- with garbage video (totally out of sync, etc). This happens regardless of whether Open Firmware is set to output on video or serial (I haven't hooked up a serial cable yet). The garbage video lasts roughly a minute, after which the screen goes to the OS9 gray blank scree; after a further 30 seconds or so, the system boots off the SCSI drive. Installing Jaguar to a SCSI drive proceeds just fine, and I'm using that configuration right now, but I'm still interested in finding out why the ATA option doesn't work. The ATA drive is roughly twice as fast as the SCSI drive (largely because it's on the 10MB/s fast internal bus, which is much shower than ATA-66). I've looked at the output from XPostFacto with respect to boot arguments, etc, and it seems to look fine -- it just doesn't work. I've had extremely limited success getting to an Open Firmware prompt (I've gotten it twice on an Apple 13" monitor, 640x480, but the video comes out in 4 chunks -- deja vu from old Mac II days). On my primary monitor, a 21" fixed-resolution 1024x768 behemoth that's about 15 years old, I've had no luck with Open Firmware prompts at all. I'm thinking of tossing a multisync monitor onto the system temporarily just to see if maybe I'll get something interesting. In the meantime: has anyone had luck booting an UltraTek-66 with XPostFacto (2.2.5) on an 8500? How about against a WD drive? I can put a Seagate on for test purposes. I'm assuming this has worked for some people and that it's just my system that's wacky. I have reset PRAM a few dozen times over the course of testing, reset the CUDA, played with memory configuration; no luck with any of that. --John |
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RE: UltraTek-66 on 8500 boot problems |
March, 05, 2003 1:23 PM |
neemidge |
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Yes, I've flashed the VST to the current code level. I'm using a smaller than 8GB partition (7.5GB located within the first 8GB of the disk -- it's the first partition). The drive _works_ fine in 10.2.4, as long as I boot from SCSI. The only problem is my complete inability to boot from it. |
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RE: UltraTek-66 on 8500 boot problems |
March, 05, 2003 12:26 PM |
dgautrey123 |
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I have a VST card installed in my beige g3 box, runs OS 10.2.4 just fine. I have a maxtor 25 gig and 20 gig attached, split into 3 partitions and 2 partitions respectively. I flashed the card with software provided by OWC and have not had any problems since. David |
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RE: UltraTek-66 on 8500 boot problems |
March, 05, 2003 7:31 AM |
midd33 |
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Did you flash the VST rom so you can use it in OS X? Should have come with the board. If not let me know and I'll send it to you. |
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RE: UltraTek-66 on 8500 boot problems |
March, 04, 2003 8:14 PM |
mjoecups358 |
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I bought the Acard ahard 66 from OWC, after deciding the Ultratek was crap.... The acard works fine and boots from a 60G maxtor in my G3/500 (metabox) Powertower pro... Marty |
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RE: UltraTek-66 on 8500 boot problems |
March, 04, 2003 5:52 PM |
SlyTovak |
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I've never had much luck with the VST card I had, but it may help to try and install OSX on a partition smaller than 8GB on the IDE drive. Some people have had success with that approach. I only used the VST card to run an internal CDRW myself, it never seemed to have much luck with hard drives |
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