7500: Can't select ATA Drive During Install |
October, 05, 2002 5:42 PM |
kpsf |
Config: This is a 7200 box with a 7500 (TNT) mboard.Sonnet ATA 100 card with Maxtor 40GB drive attached, and a 1.2 GB hard drive and 24X CD-ROM on the internal SCSI chain. It also has a MacAlly Combo card and had a Rage Orion card (removed for the install). After resolviing initial difficulties with bad RAM from OWC (truncated chime after installing add'l 128 MB module) and the CD-ROM (used a 4X 600e I had laying around), SUCCESS -- I got the the graphic part of the install process to begin, only to grind to a halt at the point where a volume is selected to install onto. It gives me the option of installing onto the 1.2GB SDSI drive but none of the 3 partitions on the ATA drive (which all appear named but greyed out). If I remove the SCSI drive and try again. I get the ATA partitions, greyed out and not selectable. I have OS 9.1 installed on all three. This is a bit frustrating but I feel I am very close and am wondering if anyone has any thoughts? I have the ATA 100 2.2.3 firmware installed. Thanks. |
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RE: 7500: Can't select ATA Drive During Install |
October, 08, 2002 6:30 PM |
michael587 |
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For fax software try Cocoa EFAX. Its not quite our of beta, but it worked for me when I was trying it out -- until I lost my hard drive and had to re-install. (Check on VersionTracker). EFAX is an open source unix command-line program written for NextStep that uses GhostScript (an open source PostScript clone). The Cocoa part is a gui front-end. The author is working on bypassing GhostScript and using Quartz for the major release. You may have to do a little work, but if you've been using XPostFacto your used to that. Mike |
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SUCCESS! I KISS YOU!!!!!!!!! |
October, 08, 2002 5:23 PM |
kpsf |
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OK, not literally, but I've been taking half-hearted stabs at installing OS X (albeit on my beige G3) for 2 years and getting it up and running on my little 72/7500 is SOOOO SWEEEET. Got it smoothly running 10.1 on the first partition -- it WAS the 8GB issue, and I did do a clean install over an empty partition. I have one more question: I have GV Teleport 56k V90 (serial) modem -- what steps do I need to take to get it to work? Will it run on 10 with 9.x software (looked on the site -- doesn't appear to be anything to upgrade it) or do I install on my Classic partition and skip 10? Clearly I'd like to access my mail and surf directly through OS 10. . . |
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RE: 7500: Can't select ATA Drive During Install |
October, 08, 2002 9:14 AM |
OSXGuru |
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Yes, the first partition is the one on top. You should be OK if you make the partition a little smaller than 8 GB. One problem is that there are a couple of "housekeeping" partitions before this that take up a little space. The other problem is that the Mac OS X 10.2 installer seems to define MB as 1000 rather than 1024. So something like 7.5 GB would be absolutely safe. The partition that you intend to install Mac OS X on should ideally be blank (it is best to install Mac OS 9.x on a different partition, especially since you have to partition anyway. And Mac OS 9.x is not subject to the 8 GB limit, of course). But you can install Mac OS X over top of 9.1 if you have to. |
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RE: 7500: Can't select ATA Drive During Install |
October, 07, 2002 5:57 AM |
kpsf |
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I finally dug fairly far back into the forum and it appears this may be the "OS 10.0-10.1 in the first partition no larger than 8 gigs" thing. If this is so, I need to know a bit more (please have mercy on my ignorance): (1) Is the first partition the first (top) one listed in Drive Setup when you're determining partition size? (2) If I make that parttion 8 Gigs -- not smaller -- will I be OK? (3) Should the partition that I intend to install OS X on be blank, i.e. formatted but with no operating system, or should it have OS 9.1 installed on it? |
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RE: 7500: Can't select ATA Drive During Install |
October, 06, 2002 4:20 PM |
kpsf |
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It's 10.0.3 (I got it with a bundle that includes a 10.1 upgrade CD). Also, at present, I've got 150 MB of RAM in it. |
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RE: 7500: Can't select ATA Drive During Install |
October, 06, 2002 2:02 PM |
webmaster814 |
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What ver. of OS X are you trying to install? Michael |