B&W G3 drive problems

[Brian Thompson]

B.


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From: Jann Röder <jann.roeder@web.de>
Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Subject: Re: B&W G3 drive problems
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 21:32:19 +0200

You might have some broken Openfirmware settings. You can try the following:

Boot up your computer and hold down apple-alt-o-f .
The open firware prompt will appear. Now enter:
reset-nvram <enter>
set-defaults <enter>
reset-all <enter>

Jann

Michael George wrote:

>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!
>
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I had simila problems...

I then used OS 9.2.2 to re-partition the Hard Drive.
open Drive Setup.
With out having ANY drives selected, go to Functions -> Initilization 
Options
Choose Low Level Format.
THEN select your 20Gb HD and Initilize.  This will force the apple drivers 
to install on the drive.

Reboot and re-install YDL

This worked for me...  BTW do you have a Rev 2 board?  I didn't try with the 
Rev.1.  I'm now running a Rev 2 board w/ a 40 Gb Seagate Barracuda Ultra ATA 
133 with a WD 20 GB Slave.

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