[ydl-gen] B&W and drive not recognised!

[Derick Centeno]

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Hi Dene:

You appear to be searching for an solution based on Apple OS Utilities
and associated software.  Years ago I'd remember what to recommend, but
I switched to YDL so long ago that I remember nothing useful, other
than some details regarding formatting hard drives which hardly anyone
bothers with anymore.

If you are willing to attempt it why not use the machine you have
running YDL 5 to investigate the hardware you are curious about?  If
parted can see it, control and format it -- I see no reason why it
can't -- that could be the way for you to go.  Instead of trying to
thing's Apple's way, try the technical utilities in Linux.  You may be
surprised what you can do.  I believe the technical utilities in YDL
are more varied than what Apple allows anyway.  I once used YDL
utilities to recover a drive used in a Silicon Graphics box which was
pronounced dead.

If however Apple stuff remains important for whatever reason, perhaps
some specialists in that could be located here:

http://www.yellowdog-board.com/

I'm not clear why you'd want YDL 4.1, when it appears that you can run
YDL 5.  Why not run YDL 5 on both machines?

Just some thoughts...

Good Luck...

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 07:22:00 +0100
Dene Stringfellow <support at ridgedale.co.uk> wrote:

> I wonder if anyone else has come across this problem. I am aiming to 
> install YDL 4.1 on a B&W G3 but have come across an initial hardware 
> recognition issue on a setup I'm sure I've seen working somewhere
> else before.
> 
> I have a B&W G3 400MHz PowerMac that I want to use a 36Gb IBM
> UltraStar hard drive with using an Advansys 3940U2W SCSI card. I used
> the latest Advansys Flash Utility v.1.56 and flashed the SCSI card
> with the 38C0800_9_boot.bin Mac OS9 boot BIOS successfully on a
> PowerMac 8600 under OS9.22 and am able to mount, format and boot from
> the drive without any problem on that computer.
> 
> (I already have another B&W G3 running YDL 5.01 using an Adaptec 
> PowerDomain SCSI card with an 18Gb IBM DGHS and a 36Gb IBM UltraStar 
> hard drive without any problems).
> 
> However, when I transfer the drive, SCSI card and ribbon cable to the 
> B&W G3 and boot the machine I can see the SCSI card using the Apple 
> System Profiler but no drive on the end of it - that's booting from
> an Apple MacOS 9.2.1 installer CD! I attached an external firewire
> drive and ran FWB's Hard Disk Toolkit v.4.52 and was slightly more
> successful in that it was able to see the hard drive attched to the
> SCSI card but was not able to mount or format the drive as those
> options are greyed out!
> 
> I have tried flashing card by running the tools from the external 
> Firewire drive having booted the machine using the Apple MacOS 9.2.1 
> installer CD, and I have also booted into Open Firmware and reset the 
> hardware configuration, to no available!
> 
> Clearly I am missing something and would be grateful if someone could 
> point out to me where I am going wrong.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Dene


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