YDL with a WD 120GB and B/W G3

[sloopy malibu]

'ello,

interesting... i have a B&W G3... and just bought a WD 120gig drive... i
plan on installing it either this morning or tomorrow... i will let you
know how it goes... 

also on my 8500 runnning linux i have used a PCI SCSI card that is for
PC's for connecting my root drive for linux... wouldnt show up in Mac OS
(8.0-9.1) but worked fine for linux...

sloopy.


On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 10:33, Henry A. Leinhos wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've got a rev1 B/W G3 desktop running at 300 MHz, and have been trying 
> to install YDL 3.0 on a Western Digital 120GB drive (WD1200JB Caviar 
> Special Ed), with mixed results. If I connect the drive (with an 
> 80-conductor EIDE cable) to the apple IDE connector, MacOS (9.2) can see 
> the drive, but can't always initialize it, and I get read errors when 
> copying data to/from the drive.  If I try to run the YDL3.0 Installer, I 
>   get errors partitioning/formatting the drive.  Now, if I connect the 
> drive to an UltraATA-66 PCI card (which MacOS doesn't recognize), I can 
> install YDL3.0 with out problem (it sees the WD drive as hde).  For now, 
> I can boot using the install CD (ofpath returns an error for /dev/hde, 
> so I can't boot directly  via ybin/yaboot at the moment), and the drive 
> works flawlessly (as far as I can tell).
> 
> My question is, has anyone else had any experience with a WD120 or 
> better on similar hardware, and is there anyway to boot directly to this 
> drive using the PCI card (or do I install an Apple Bootstrap partition 
> somewhere on the MacOS drive)?
> 
> 
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