Tempo ATA100 Problems In 10.2 |
August, 26, 2002 3:49 PM |
tebjlc |
About half the time when I boot in to 10.2 using XPF 2.2: 1.BootX says my Firewire cardis returning "Bad Self IDs", attempt to reset the card,and won't find the Firewire drives unless I connect/disconnect them from the card after the desktop comes up;then they appera to freeze the system if I attempt to access them. 2.I get a BOOTX freeze when BOOTX sees my ATA100 Card,attempts to identify it,and returns "Disk0s4 0X8 (UNDEFINED)..(?) Any ideas? |
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RE: Tempo ATA100 Problems In 10.2 |
September, 02, 2002 9:44 PM |
OSXGuru |
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Unfortunately, I don't think it is possible to capture the verbose mode info. I wish there were, actually. There is a kernel function called "kprintf" which, if enabled in the "Debug" menu of XPostFacto, will send some information through the serial port. However, it isn't all of the information that you see in verbose mode. (It would be useful if it were, or if there was an option to divert all the console text to kprintf). |
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RE: Tempo ATA100 Problems In 10.2 |
August, 28, 2002 4:43 PM |
tebjlc |
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Well... I finally got XPF2.2 to attempt to boot 10.2..I'd swapped the ATA100 into another PCI slot,and now in Verbose mode the boot stops at "disk0s3 0x8 [UNDEFINED] " Apparently, swapping the PCI slot changed the disk that OSX is not seeing properly..interesting .. Is there a way to get XPF Verbose mode to write output to a file using the Open Firmware prompt (a "pipe" command ,flag,etc)that I could send you? Or do I need to send you stills of the screen (I MAY be able to do this with my Camcorder)... |
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RE: Tempo ATA100 Problems In 10.2 |
August, 27, 2002 7:12 PM |
OSXGuru |
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Here are a couple of possibilities. There was a problem with the Intech SpeedTools software and the Mac OS X 10.1 installer, and that problem may have carried over into the Mac oS X 10.2 installer. If that is your problem, you would need to get the latest version of the SpeedTools software and reinstall the drivers for your drives. (If I remember correctly, it is not necessary to reformat--you simply need to reinstall the drivers). The other possibility is some kind of RAM issue. You might try swapping out some DIMMs to see if you can isolate a problematic one. There have been a couple of reports of DIMMs which are fine in 10.1 but fail with 10.2. (In fact, every new version of Mac OS X seems to be a little harder on DIMMs, for some reason). |
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RE: Tempo ATA100 Problems In 10.2 |
August, 27, 2002 3:53 PM |
tebjlc |
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OK.Last night I de-interleaved all my DIMMS,and rearranged My PCI cards .I was able to boot into OS9 and then Use XPF 2.2 to boot into 10.2. Once.I got all the way to the desktop,the dock came up,and then the cursor froze...I rebooted ,and the Darwin prompt came up at the ene of the boot sequence instea of the OsX desktop I exited,rebooted.. nothing.blank screens.If I cut offthe CPU for an hour I can get to OS9,but if I try to use XPF ..Same result..? |
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RE: Tempo ATA100 Problems In 10.2 |
August, 26, 2002 9:34 PM |
tebjlc |
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The Firewire card is an Adaptec FireConnect 4300.It worked well with 10.0,10.1,and 10.1.5;I had a Western Digital 80Gig External Firewire drive in 1 card port,a 10GB Seagate drive in a Pyro 1394 Oxford 911 chipset external Firewire case in another card port,and a Sony TRV230 Digital8 camera in a a third card port. The disk reference may have been "DiskOsk4 Ox8 [UNDEFINED]". It is a 40gig ATA drive partitioned into 1 8000MB volume (OS X 10.2 and 9.1 installed here) and 1 29GB volume (OS 9.1 installed here). I used Intech Hard Disk Speed Tools to format and partition the drive (HFS+) I also added a Radeon 7000 video card (in addition to my OEM ATI PCI card) ,updated the firmware with the suggested ATI 9.01 patch,and had both cards installed when I did the OSX 10.2 install;no kernel panics,but the Radeon doesn't initialize until the "blue screen" comes up before the Mac OSX logo and the progress bar at the end of boot... BTW,the Radeon worked well in 10.1.5 except that I had an occasional cursor freeze (either monitor)... I think I may review the slot order of my PCI cards next..this is a 6 -slot 9500,and perhaps OS 10.2 is more attentive to the "3-bottom slot "issue with these machines than previous versions.. or I suppose it could be a DIMM issue (?) I'll try to record a more accurate summation of the boot log .. |
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RE: Tempo ATA100 Problems In 10.2 |
August, 26, 2002 8:22 PM |
OSXGuru |
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Actually, I don't think that is BootX any more. BootX just loads the drivers, it doesn't execute them. I haven't seen either of those errors before. Which Firewire card do you have, and which devices? Had they worked better in 10.1? Had the ATA100 card worked better in 10.1? Is there anything unusual about the disk connected to it? disk0s4 would be the 4th partition, counting the "invisible" ones. In a Drive Setup formatted drive, it is an Apple_Driver_IOKit partition, which, theoretically, is a place where IOKit drivers might live. Except that in Mac OS X 10.0, at least, that was not implemented (i.e. nobody looked there for drivers). I don't know if it has been implemented since. Which utility did format the drive in question? |
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