Looking for Advice on going BACK to jaguar... |
October, 26, 2002 11:43 AM |
timjudym |
Awhile back, i was running Jaguar on one hard drive and classic on another and got hung out to dry one day when it crashed. I have since got everything back up and running on 10.1.5 and this time i am on a single hard drive. Details ofthe computer are, PTP with an initio miles2 UW2 card. The Initio firmware was what got me in trouble last time...but i am hoping that being on a single hard drive i should be ok. I am running XPF 2.2 and have a clean install of 10.1.5. i know i have to jump back to the upgraded firmware, but is there ANY reason to which to an updated version of XPF? Is there a check list of things i should make sure i do or don't do this time in regards to partitions or anything? My gut tells me that i should leave well enough alone and be happy at 10.1.5..the the jaguar disk is calling my name. |
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RE: Looking for Advice on going BACK to jaguar... |
October, 27, 2002 7:01 AM |
timjudym |
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I have one seagate cheetah 18g on that Miles card and no drives on the scsi-2 bus. And yes i ran into the same thing when i had jaguar installed before. Which was fine if i never boot into os9 again....BUT...and its a big BUT...when i crashed last time in jaguar upon restart My computer took over and wanted to boot into 9, so i got the old blinking question mark. I eneded up having to start over from scratch. So with 10.1.5 installed i can boot to both X and 9 on this hard drive because the firmware required for 10.1.5 does not lock one out of OS9. My HOPE is that in a couple months, the new version 3 of Disk warrior will "see" our Hard drives on the initio card with the OSX firmware so that if i do crash and lose by bootability i can then boot from the Disk warrior Cd and it should be able to repair things . if you go back in this forum a few pages you will see 2 threads i had going regarding this subject. |
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RE: Looking for Advice on going BACK to jaguar... |
October, 26, 2002 10:09 PM |
diditgo |
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Hi Tim, It is the one at the website Miles_2_Smart_SCSI_X When you mentioned that you have everything on one disk now, I assume that you are running that disk off the miles card? When you have a crash how do you boot back into 9 from that card? The reason I ask, is because I had to install my original drive on the original scsi to be able to boot at all if i am unable to get back to 10. Because once I am useing the Miles_2_Smart_SCSI_X it wont see any of the drives conected to it, until I do the backflash to 9 on the old drive. Bob mcWillimas at initio has been great with me as well, he know his mac. |
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RE: Looking for Advice on going BACK to jaguar... |
October, 26, 2002 12:52 PM |
timjudym |
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Thanks for the post....yes it is maddening to be dealing with the Miles2 card in all this, but i talked directly to Bob mcWillimas from Initio and he basically said the current firmware was running very stable and he didn't see any immediate changes to it, but if it did need any changes he would try to address the dual boot issue you and i are having. Now when you say version 3 of the firmware are you refering to the Miles_2_Smart_SCSI_X file that is included in the folder from the website currently? That is the firware i believe i ran the first time i got to Jaguar...I know it was one of the files in that folder...it might have been Miles_2 _SmartSCSI_9_1.07. If you wouldn't mind maybe you could email the folder you used if it is different from the one from the website. |
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RE: Looking for Advice on going BACK to jaguar... |
October, 26, 2002 12:23 PM |
diditgo |
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Hi Tim, I am up and running with Jag again after a week of pulling my hair and computer apart. We both have the added handycap of the Initio miles card. My advice to you is to just make sure you are running version 3 of the miles firmware, before you install 10.2. If you get stuck, like I did, and are not able to boot back to 9, pull the battery and let it sit for 30 minutes. I have learned through trial and error that when booted in 9 you must backflash the miles firmware to version 1, then reflash it to 3 before hitting that magical button on xpost. to try and install jag. I had been running jag since it came out but had some serious problems with my hard drive where jag lived (I have two drives running off the intio card, one for nine and one for 10.2). I had to put my original hard drive on the original bus to get my computer booted up in OS 9. Pull my new Radeon 7000 video card, and use original video card. I had to disconect the drive that had 10.2 on it that was haveing the problems (no repair was possible). Pulled the new ram that I had installed from OWC. Reflash the miles two version 3, hit the install on xpf and jag and I have been happy for 3 whole days!!!!! I was able to put the ram and video card back in, after booting into 10.2. Good luck!!! |