PTP STILL reboots to 9 instead of installing X |
October, 05, 2002 11:40 AM |
rxt7819 |
Hello Again, Taking the kind advice of the forum, I moved my drives (all of them) to the External SCSI bus and tried the XPF install procedure. Still I find the machine boots to 9. So I set the startup disk to be the CDROM drive and gave it another go. This time it began the X boot process, but quickly halted on a "panic -- we are hanging" (or something very close to that.) I removed the Entrega USB card, and I've tried different thorttle settings (None, 8, 16, 20, 24.) No luck. I have not been able to recreate the failure to document the data that was dumped to screen. Since that first verbose failure I have only gotten broken folder icons, even when specifying verbose mode in XPF and via command-v at boot time. Any suggestions what my next step should be? To reiterate some info: PTP225 with a 500MHz PowerLogix G3 card, two 2GB IBM drives, one 18GB Fujitsu (the X target) and one 18GB Barracuda. CDROM is a Matshita (shipped my PTP's original CDROM.) All of these are now on the external SCSI bus. Thanks for the help. Raj |
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E: PTP STILL reboots to 9 instead of installing X |
October, 08, 2002 8:54 AM |
OSXGuru |
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Another thing to check is which utility was used to format your target volume. The "rebooting to 9" symptom can be caused by having formatted with something other than Apple's Drive Setup (in Mac OS 9.x), or Intech's Hard Disk SpeedTools. |
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Check the SCSI Termination |
October, 05, 2002 8:34 PM |
brfransen |
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Many of these types of problems are usually traced back to improper SCSI termination. I also have a PTP. It came stock with a Teac drive (Matshita internals I believe) that was improperly terminated. It had been unterminated and at the end of the SCSI chain for almost 4 years running older versions of Mac OS with absolutly no problems. When I did a search on the web for the data sheet for the drive I found that Teac had made a mistake in their orginal documentation reguarding termination. The orginal document said that termination was enabled WITH NO jumper. They later revised the document to say that termination was enabled WITH the jumper. Power Computing had followed the orginal documentation which was wrong. All of that to say, recheck your SCSI termination. Hope this helps! Britney |
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