Boot from SIIG ATA/133 |
October, 02, 2003 8:50 PM |
ggorbet |
My S900 has a SIIG Ultra ATA/133 with a Maxtor 40 gig attached. It's been partitioned into two equally sized volumes with OS 10.2.6 on both, Classic on the second. It showed up immediately and initialized/partitioned with no problem. My problem is that I can only boot into X from OS 9 or another X by using XPF 3 and designating a helper disk. When I try XPF 2.2.5 or XPF 3 with no helper, the boot keeps flashing "no bootable HFS partition" and eventually boots back into 9. I've tried the ATA card in both slots 2 and 3. It is currently back in slot 3. I thought that the Acard's had no slot or first-8-gigs issues. As I say, I am successfully running OS X on this machine. My concern is that I am now dependent on a second drive (a 2 gigger on the internal narrow SCSI) and would be unable to boot should anything happen to that drive. Since it now appears that this card does have the "first 8 gig" restriction, can I build an X on the first 8 gigs, then another X on the remainder, and use the first volume as my helper? |
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RE: Boot from SIIG ATA/133 |
October, 04, 2003 10:05 AM |
ggorbet |
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First, let me apologize for doubly entering this thread. I got impatient with a slow connection and must have hit the button twice. To answer cjsconfections' question: I could restart in X, I just had to have set up XPF 3 to use a helper disk. As I detailed on the *other* version of this thread, my problem turned out to be that I had not initialized my Maxtor with OS 9's Drive Setup (I had used OS X Drive Utility). After a Drive Setup init and many hours of backups, restores, and utility fixes, I am now able to boot through XPF with no helper disk. You were right, it was not an 8 gig issue. |
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RE: Boot from SIIG ATA/133 |
October, 03, 2003 9:08 PM |
cjsconfections |
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I'm confused. Is it that you can only boot to X through 9? Or once in X, if you power down and start up, does it start in X? Did you install the extensions on the Maxtor when using XPF? I don't think it is an 8 gig issue. |
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RE: Boot from SIIG ATA/133 |
October, 03, 2003 8:06 PM |
jpanch |
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I have a SIIG Ata card and I don't have the 8 gb issue. Mine is an ATA 100 and shows up in the profiler as a scsi card |