XPF, IBM Us w/UAD'd, vs 800MHz G4 |
September, 28, 2003 4:34 PM |
ltking |
Hi All: One last question for the group (Chibi and Ryan, I hope you'll give me some feedback here) on getting a Sonnet Crescento/PCI 800MHz G4 card to work in my PPC8500. Past hx is: I had been able to get this machine with this Sonnet card to load and run OS 10.2 as long as I had the OS X boot drive connected to the "slow SCSI bus." Was having to use Sonnet's OS X compatibility stuff to do this as XPF would not work for ?? reasons. Following up on a brief thread from back in May of this year I finally got around to connecting the OS X drive to the "fast SCSI bus" and with 'Unit Attention Disabled' and using XPF 3a4 got OS 10.2 to boot the way I wanted it too (had gone back to a NewerTech 500MHZ G3 at this point). I even was able to go back to my 24x Apple CD-ROM! When I switched to the Sonnet card I don't even get the verbose screen output I'd selected! Just nothing for about 3 minutes until the machine boots into OS 9.1. Even this fall back boot is hit and miss; sometimes it will boot to a secondary drive and rarely to the primary OS 9.1 drive (? the beginings of OS X boot "unblessing" the primary drive's OS 9.1 system folder). Any ideas here? Cheers, Lonnie |
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RE: XPF, IBM Us w/UAD'd, vs 800MHz G4 |
September, 29, 2003 9:19 PM |
joevt |
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The test for cmd-v occurs before the test for the Open Firmware verbose mode boot option which is why you'll see more verbose output if you use the keyboard. |
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RE: XPF, IBM Us w/UAD'd, vs 800MHz G4 |
September, 28, 2003 7:04 PM |
powderhaus |
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for some reason when i press cmd v instead of selecting verbose mode from XPF i get the end of the open firmware screen, or it will say can't open scsi.... or something to the effect of this mac is not compatable... contune hit boot or boot into MacOS hit bye. if it is incompatable then XPF did not properly install so of its things and telling it to reinstall onto the same drive then just booting back to OS9 and then trying again MAY help, it worked once for me with my firewire drive, but then another time with the drive it had no effect, its worth a shot i guess. |
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