B&W G3 drive problems

[Michael George]

I'm having one heck of a time with YDL 3.0 and this B&W G3 300MHz 
system.   A friend got it used from a school and it has a 6GB drive w/ 
9.2.2.  I want to make it dual-boot with 9.2.2, so I got a MDT 20GB 
drive (made by Western Digital) and hooked it up.  Right now only the 
20Gb drive is on it, as I'm waiting for an ATA100 cable to connect them 
both.

I had trouble with the GUI install failing, so I did the safe mode 
install and it seemed to work okay the 3 or 4 times I've done it.

After installing, though, the system won't boot.  The first try, it got 
through the state1 bootloader and then croaked on the 2nd stage.  I 
reinstalled, thinking I'd done something wrong.  Since that time, it 
won't even recognize the disk on boot, but it will when installing.

I read something about a possible 8GB limit on the / partition, so I 
reinstalled with /dev/hda3 being 8190MB rather than the rest of the 
disk, as autopartition wanted to do.

Same thing happened, at boot I get the flashing folder with the "?" on 
it.

So, I thought I'd test the setup with an OSX install onto that disk.  I 
booted that CD and it got to the "pick a disk" and it didn't even list 
the HDD!

I was wondering about a possible firmware update on the B&W that might 
accommodate large HDD's, but didn't find any through Apple or Google.

I have the disk "jumpered" (actually to jumper it as Master is to have 
no jumper) as the master and plugged onto the tiny little cable that it 
came with.  Maybe I need to set it to cable-select, instead...

I'm going to put the OS 9.2.2 disk back on to see that it still boots 
it, to make sure the ATA controller hasn't gone south on me.

Anyone have any useful suggestions for how to proceed?  I've checked 
the past 4mos of mailing list archives, but found nothing to solve the 
problem.

Surely there are people running YDL3.0 on B&W G3's, so it has to be 
possible.  If I need to, I can put YDL on the 6Gb drive and use the 
20Gb as other parts of the filesystem, but I'd like to know that's the 
only way to go before I dismantle that installation.  And I'd really 
like to have the system be dual-boot with each OS on it's own drive...

Thanks!
-Michael

P.S. Is there a way to search all the archives for strings?  I'll I've 
found so far is that I can list the archive contents by subject, 
author, and thread, but that might allow me to miss something useful... 
  Thx!