YDL with a WD 120GB and B/W G3

[sloopy malibu]

Henry,

i got it installed on my machine... but it wasnt easy... if i connected
it with either of my two other drives (maxtor 20 and 40gig) it wouldnt
work but when i connected it by itself it worked fine... this is on the
ide0 channel... the WD1200JB is the exact model i have too...
the only problem i had once it was connected by itself was OF wasnt set
up properly and it wouldnt boot into linux... so i mounted all the
partitions from the drive did a chroot, check /etc/yaboot.conf to make
sure it was sane and correct, and rerran ybin and everything worked
fine...

sloopy.


On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 03:20, sloopy malibu wrote:
> '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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